Oak
Hills Lynn Anderson etal Music Creed

10.27.13 Max Lucado imposed "Instrumental Music as Worship" because he said that Paul who condemns anything beyond the Word or LOGOS (Regulative) principle was NOT inspired but HE was inspired and
had a vision. Selling anything beyond speaking the free water of
the Word is called prostitution: it doesn't matter which body part you
sell. The Spirit OF Christ defined a Church of Christ as REST both
inclusively and exclusively. He excluded
seeking your own pleasure or speaking your own words. Being lifted
up with pride was the sin of Lucifer called the "singing and
harp-playing prostitute in the garden of Eden" and the "Babylon mother
of harlots (Revelation 17) uses lusted after fruits
as speakers, singers and instrument players. John called them
SORCERERS and that they would be cast alive into the Lake of Fire.
Jesus promised that if you do not speak HIS WORDS (Logos is the
Regulative Principle) you are a Scribe or Pharisee He called hypocrites by naming speakers, singers and instrument players in Ezekiel 33.

How he made music with his words. He turned epistles into concert
hall sheet music. “Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels,
but have not love, I have become as sounding brass or clanging cymbal.”
(1 Cor. 13:1) It’s as if he dipped his pen in honey. He could sound
like a poet in the seventh heaven.

He could also sound like a pastor on Monday morning. Tired,
frustrated. Beginning sentences and not finishing them. Starting a
second thought before he finished the first. Throwing out ideas in
lumps instead of lyrics. But that was ok. He wasn’t writing the
Bible. He was writing to Philemon. He wasn’t crafting epistles; he was
solving problems. Paul didn’t write for the ages; he wrote for the
churches. He wrote for souls.

And we’ve written: articles, blogs, books, stories. Not like Luke, Paul, and John. But not unlike them, either.

We’ve had our moments of inspiration. Sandwiched between hours of
perspiration, for sure. But we’ve had our moments—mysticalmoments of
pounding heart and pounding keyboard. We’ve felt the wind behind our
backs and sensed a holy hand guiding ours.We, like our Creator, have
beheld our creations and declared, “It’s good.” (Or, at least, “It’s
not so bad.”) And we have asked: Is this our call? Our assignment?
To use words to shape souls?

First, Jesus of Nazareth as
Holy Spirit appeared to Paul and let Himself be seen to ENABLE Paul to
be a post-resurrection witness and inspired writer. Paul wrote
circular letters to be READ in all of the churches.

WHAT JESUS AS HOLY SPIRIT TOLD PAUL TO WRITE TO MAX LUCADO AND ANYONE WHO SELLS THE FREE WATER OF THE WORD AND CORRUPTS IT. Paul and the Greek Scholars called those who corrupt the word of the author "by selling learning at retail" is a PROSTITUTE.

Tongues?

1Corinthians 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues
of men and of
angels,
(condemned)
and have not charity, (Grace) (condemned)
I am become as soundingbrass, or a tinklingcymbal.

This is not speaking as in the command to SPEAK one
to another to teach and comfort.
Sounding brass and tinkling cymbals here are identifying marks of
people who have NO LOVE. Even if they COULD speak all of the languages
in the world there would be no love. The command is to SPEAK or LOGOS
the Word of Christ which is the opposite of rhetoric, singing or
playing instruments. Speaking in the tongues of angels was IN FACT
making music in tongues. Tongues and Instruments INTEND to lull
people to sleep with THE LOCUSTS OF REVELATION.

It
may help us to understand that the Greek word lelein refers primarily
to utterance rather than to meaningful conversation. The term is used
repeatedly in chapter 14 to describe speaking in tongues. Phrynichus,
the ancient dictionarian, defined the term as 'to talk nonsense'.

The word is used of gossip, prattling, babbling, animal sounds, and
musicalinstruments. During the classical period, it usually was
employed in a contemptuous sense. Debrunner, writing in the
Kittle-Friedrich Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, states
'Lalein can also be used quite objectively of speech when there is
reference to sound rather than than meaning. 'To what kind of utterance
can St. Paul refer? There were many types of vocalization in ecstatic
rites.

They have been heard to utter (different voices of equal strength,
or with great diversity and inequality) in tones that alternated with
silence; and again in other cases harmonious crescendo or dimenuendo of
tone, and in still other cases other kinds of utterance. (Iamblichus, On
the Mysteries, III, 4-6)

-kat-auleô , A. charm by flute-playing, metaphor I will flute to you on a
ghastly flute, E.HF871 (troch.):--Pass., of persons, methuôn kai
katauloumenos drinking wine to the
strains of theflute, Pl.R.561c;
k. pros chelônidos psophon to be played to on
the flute with lyre
accompaniment, II. in Pass., [ton monochordon kanona]
parechein tais aisthêsesi . . katauloumenon subdued by a flute accompaniment, to be piped down,
ridiculed,
gelômenoi2. make a place sound with flute-playing, resound with flute-playing,
nêsos katêuleito Plu.Ant.56Aggelos , of a loquacious person 2. generally, one that announces or tells, e.g. of birds of augury, Il.24.292,296; Mousōnaggelos, of a poetAggelos , ho, hē,

Eur. Supp. 203 Theseus [195]
Full often have I argued out this subject with others. For there are
those who say, there is more bad than good in human nature; but I hold a
contrary view, that good over bad predominates in man,
[200]
for if it were not so, we should not exist. He has my praise,
whichever god brought us to live by rule from chaos and from
brutishness,
first by implanting reason, and next by giving us a tongue
to declare our thoughts, so as to know the meaning of what is said..

And where sight fails us and our knowledge is not sure, the seer
foretells by gazing on the flame, by reading signs in folds of entrails,
or by divination from the flight of birds.
Are we not then too proud,
when heaven has made such
[215]
preparation for our life,
not to be content with it?
But our
presumption seeks to lord it over heaven,
and in the pride of our hearts
we think we are wiser than the gods.
Oak
Hills Church of Christ under Max Lucado with Lynn Anderson's input uses
Farmers Branch Church of
Christ's totally perverted view of music in Scripture.Notes from Oak Hills and Instrumental
Music. Max Lucado got his vision from the Farmer's Branch
paper
also used by Rick Atchley and Mark Henderson. This is turn has been
hand fed from the NACC by men such as Knowles, Johnson and David Faust
masking under the theme of UNITY.

Oak
Hills Church of Christ under Max Lucado with Lynn Anderson's input uses
Farmers Branch Church of
Christ's totally perverted view of music in Scripture.Notes from Oak Hills and Instrumental
Music. Max Lucado got his vision from the Farmer's Branch
paper
also used by Rick Atchley and Mark Henderson. This is turn has been
hand fed from the NACC by men such as Knowles, Johnson and David Faust
masking under the theme of UNITY.

Jim Hackney at Heritage Church of Christ (EX) IMPOSES instruments claiming that He has power to BIND and LOOSE.

First, since psallo never at any time or place in recorded history MEANT more than pluck or smite a string with your FINGERS and never with a PLECTRUM they would know that pluck had and has absolutely no "musical" content. That is why there is no recorded Bible or literary example of being able to instruct someone to pluck a string
with one word. If you tell someone PLUCK there is no telling what would
happen to you. The same is true in English and all languages.

Second, if you want to tell someone to PLUCK an INSTRUMENT there are compoundwords for all named instruments and STYLES of plucking.

Third, you blaspheme the Spirit of Christ by saying that:

He was too ignorant not to use TWO words such as PSALLO Plus A Harp.

He was tooignorant not to use one compound word which meant play a harp

He just wanted to throw in stumble words for those who have not been washed with water INTO the Word or school of Christ or

He intentionally wanted to sow massive discord since singing as an ACT was first imposed in the hear 373.

Even if "psallo" meant play a harp it could NEVER be used to justify a guitar pick, a flute or drums

Playing the part of those deliberately
sowing discord and blaspheming, let's assume that the Spirit of Christ
or Paul or anyone prior to 1878 was too illiterate to know about all of
the compound words. For instance.

Perhaps the Holy Spirit was not educated enough NOT to use psallo which is never translated to mean musical melody and was not aware that He could have used MELOS which means musical melody or a series of single notes.

HH 19 To Pan:1 Muse, tell me about Pan, the dear son of Hermes, with his goat's feet
and two horns —a lover of merry noise. Through wooded glades he wanders
with dancingnymphs who foot it on some sheer cliff's
edge,
[5]
calling upon Pan, the shepherd-god, long-haired, unkempt.... Often he
courses through the glistening high mountains, and often on the
shouldered hills he speeds along slaying wild beasts, this keen-eyed
god. Only at evening,
[15]
as he returns from the chase,
he sounds his note,
playing sweet and
low on hispipes of reed:
not even she could excel him in melody —
that
bird who in flower-laden spring pouring forth her lament utters
honey-voiced song amid the leaves....
Then all the immortals were glad in heart and BacchicDionysus in especial; and they called the boy Pan because he delighted all their hearts.

1Corinthians 14:23 If therefore the whole church be come together into
one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are
unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

If you have a favorite "proof text" you may scroll down to the yellow
background statements of the Andersons. I have added only a small
part of the proof that they are simply worng about the Bible. You will
notice that the proofs are "scrambled" and I may put them in logical
and Biblical order with a table of context so you can read what you
wish. I have excluded personal references to people at Oak Hills
and some of the overwrought use of "buildings" apparently to justify
the use of instrumental music. I have left the links to
definitions and Greek literature which take up space: I may remove them
but it woudl be a good idea for the Greek "scholars" defending
instrumental music to be exposed to a tiny bit of evidence which
repudiates music and their scholarship.

Therefore, the fall into musical idolatry was led by the women under
the guidance of the "proofs" from Lynn Anderson etal which have been
circulated by handlers from the NACC.

In the worship bulletin
for
the Oak Hills
Church of Christ (Max Lucado, pulpit minister) on September 5, 1999, (when
their guest speaker was Buckner
Fanning,
of the Trinity Baptist Church in San Antonio) the following was printed:

A.
Oak Hills Church
of Christ Elders?:The
elders want to provide you with a statement about a question that may have
been
raised. That question
has to do with the use
of musical instruments
in our worship.

After
many months
of careful study and
consideration,
the elders unanimously
concluded that there is no Biblical
prohibition of the use
of mechanical
instruments in worship.

We
believe that they didn't
study the Bible. Rather, they were SHEPHERDED by the STAFF and
believed what is abut 100% anti-Biblical and anti-Christian. For
instance:

B.
Farmer's Branch
Church of Christ:The
Need
For This Consideration

This
presentation regarding
what the leadership of the Farmers Branch
Church believes concerning vocal
and instrumental
musicalexpression

has
been
produced as a response to sincere
questions
posed by genuine
disciples
who are a part of the heritage of
the Churches of Christ.

The Heglian dialect
discusses YOUR opinion and
MY opinion but we will COMPROMISE with MY opinion and then there will
be no DIVISION.

A.
Max Lucado's
vision and Oak Hills Church of Christ Elders?: We merely want to state
that CONSENSUS to you today without
any PREDICTION of what that might mean
to our worship services. Our
worship style may or MAY not
change, but we are in
no hurry to change. We are HIGHLY SENSITIVE to your feelings, and we
want to HEAR your THOUGHTS and WISHES.

We have it on the
authority
of God in Christ
that after the end of the Law we can ONLY worship God in the new
PLACE of our human spirit as we give heed to the Spirit OF
truth.

But just before, the STAFF
had stated:

"..the
elders unanimously
concluded that there is no Biblical
prohibition of the use
of mechanical
instruments in worship.

B.
Farmer's Branch
Church of Christ:: For some time
now,
FBCC has occasionally
incorporated the use of instrumental music into
its Sunday
morning
assemblies in the form
of a solo with an instrumental
track
or a special event
such
as a musical.

This
has proven to
be a unique
experience for anyone
who has had their faith nurtured in the context of the Churches
of Christ which (in
regard to most Churches of
Christ) have been exclusively acapella in their form of
worship.

Lynn Anderson in Navigating the Winds of Change shows
how to
slowly
change people's "comfort zones" so that they become comfortable with
that which they know is not Scriptural. This says that one
opinionated person has the right to manipulate your mind so that you
gradually love to become the proverbial "boiled frog." Unfortunately,
when such people learn how to manipulate you it becomes their religion
and your weakness lets them act out their tyranical impulses. The
result is that the slippery slope leads to destruction of that which
you PRESUMED to create in your own image. I have collected many notes
about Anderson's method of "shepherding" but minimalists understand
that sheep will not rest and feed around the sounds of rushing waters.
I am sure that this represents his views which intimidated
the elders and resulted in a full-blown rock and roll show.

Lynn
Anderson etal:
While we
want to be considerate of feelings and comfortzones,
we should be much more interested in being obedient
to God and considering what He desires.
“Am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I trying
to pleasemen?
If I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.”
Gal.1:10. Rather than asking what kind of worship we are comfortable
with, each of us should be asking what kind of worship is
pleasing to
God.

Who is this WE usurping the authority to SOW DISCORD for YOU.
Sowing discord is one of those things God hates along with the
discorders. Jesus died to give us REST from the LADED BURDEN.

Matt. 11:25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, andhast revealed them unto babes.

E.Ba.200Teiresias
[200]
We mortals have no cleverness in the eyes of the the gods.
Our ancestral traditions, and those which we have held throughout our
lives, no argument will overturn, not even if some craftiness should be
discovered by the depths of our wits.
Will anyone say that I do not respect old age, [205] being about to
dance with my head covered in ivy? No, for the god has made no
distinction as to whether it is right for men young or old to dance,
but wishes to have common honors from all and to be extolled, setting
no one apart.

Ana pauo
(g373) an-up-ow'-o; from 303 and 3973; (reflex.) to repose (lit. or
fig. [be exempt], remain); by impl. to refresh:- take ease, refresh,
(give, take) rest. Ana means
"every one of you." Pauô,
includes to: bring to an end, stop
or
silence by death, take
one's rest, cease, have done, of one singing or speaking. Yoke means a
beam balance:the strong oxen helps carry the load of the weak one.

STAND fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath
made us
free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Galatians
5:1

Phortion (g5413) for-tee'-on; dimin. of 5414; an
invoice (as
part of freight),

That means: "Jesus carries
the freight and you
just carry the invoice." Rest
is:

Anapauo
(g373) an-up-ow'-o; from 303 and 3973; (reflex.) to repose (lit. or fig. [be exempt], remain); by impl. to
refresh:- take ease, refresh, (give, take)
rest. Anapausis (g372) an-ap'-ow-sis;
from 373; intermission; by impl. recreation:-
rest. When you hear people
yelling for you to do this here religious program, it is not God.
Believe me. I tell my folks that they are reloading me with the
burden Jesus died to remove just by anouncing (and anouncing and
anouncing) all of those "busy" programs. All good of course, but not
added to our "to do list" by Jesus.

So, you have heard it
straight from Jesus:"Go
enjoy an ice cream cone, sleep late, go for a long walk in the forest
or along the beach, and just relax."

Pauo
means stop the polemos or battle, fight, war:
stop levying
war against
another, anaireisthai or airô egeirein, kathistanai,
epagein to begin a war; p. poieisthai to make
war, -- opp. to p. anapauein,
kataluesthai to put an end to it, make peace, all in atticThe
singing which is to
PAUSE to give rest is b. mostly of things, make an end of, stop,
abatePauo
means: STOP
the:
melôid-ia ,
hê, singing,
chanting,II.
chant, choral song, melôidiaspoiêtês, lullaby, generally, musisPauo
means: Stop the
pain
of:
aoidê [aeidô]1.
song, a singing, whether the art
of
song,
Hom.; or the act of singing, song, Il.
2. the thing sung, a song, Hom., etc.
3. the subject of song, Od.

Euripides,
Heracles (ed. E.
P. Coleridge) Never
will I cease to link in
one the Graces
and the Muses,
[675] sweetest union. Never may I live among uneducated boors, but
ever may I find a place among the crowned! [680] Yes, still the aged
singer lifts up his voice of bygone memories: still is my song of the triumphs
of
Heracles, whether
Bromius the giver of wine is near, or the strains of the seven-stringed
lyre and
the Libyan pipe are rising; [685] not yet will I
cease to sing the Muses' praise, my patrons in
the dance.

A primary meaning of GOSPEL is "come to me all ye that labor and are
heavy laden and I will give you rest." Heaven laden and burden
specificially identifies the type of singing of the "crooked
generation." The word REST or Greek PAUO has the same meaning
as SABBATH when instruments (for doing hard work) were outlawed. The
command in Isaiah 58 is not to seek your own pleasure or not to speak
your own words. See how music INTENDS to lade people with
burdens in a sexual arousal sense. And
Click Here to see how REST
outlaws the use of instruments. And
further the meaning
of instrumental music as heresy which has the
meaning of "creating spiritual excitement ot CARRY YOU AWAY for the
musicians own uses."

Before
looking at isolated "instrument" verses people use to prove that
musical idolatry which invited God to turn Isreal over to worship the
starry hosts (Acts 7 etc.) is God commanding us to do likewise in the
ekklesia, church or school of the Bible, we should try to understand
why a
tiny few feel obligated to deliberately sow discord and sanctify it as
"upsetting their comfort zones" to force everyone into their own
comfort zones.
The analogy of CRACKaddiction
is not exaggerated.

Based on the
need for music as a comfort zone for the whole week we should ask
whether sitting down and listening to the Word of God for a few minutes
without music deprives them of the opiate they need
to make it through
life. Reading and listening is not addictive: music is a
highly
addictive drug (endorphins) inducer.

More troubling is that they
usurp the roles of the elders and the collective body who are the
"owners" of their community comfort zone. Evangelism, on the other
hand, is the role of
those claiming to be "located missionaries." Those with talent are
commanded to use it to minister to others: those
who speak in the assembly are commanded to speak as the oracle
of God. The words for speak are defined and proven
in the ancient texts to be the opposite of poetry
or music which was used to deceive.

They make the claim that not using machines for doing hard
work in the assembly is a form of mental illness.

"A comfort
zone denotes that limited set of behaviors that a person will engage
without becoming anxious. A
comfort zone is a type of mental conditioning
that causes a person to create and operate
mental boundaries that are notreal.
Such boundaries create an unfounded sense of security

Of Anxiety:Somatically the body
prepares the organism to deal with threat (known as
an emergency reaction): blood pressure and heartrate
are increased, sweating
is increased, bloodflow to the major muscle groups
is increased, and immune and digestive system
functions are inhibited. Externally, somatic signs
of anxiety may include pale skin, sweating,
trembling,
and pupillary dilation."

Even Nimrod of the Towers of Babylon knew
how to upset people so that he "could regenerate morals by external
means." He, too, led about a female musical worship team. Musicians
were always known as "the harem of the gods." Here is some good data on the DRUG HIGH
which is produced by the singing, clapping and gyrating the body to
arouse people into--in the words of Carol Wimber--a sexual like climax
with God. This was the purpose driving all pagan religions which USED
such women to fill the collection plates.

More sinister is the well-documented fact in the Bible and
ancient literature is that speaking the Word of God is always the mark
of godly people while "making" Rock and Roll music is always the mark
of the spiritual harlot, the ignorant and the very lowest classes.

NEXT: LOOKING AT THE COMMON PROOF TEXTS--out of order!

Lynn
Anderson etal:Gal.
1:4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver
us from
this presentevil world, according to the will of God and
our Father:

Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth
salvation hath appeared to all men,
Titus 2:12 Teaching us that,
denying ungodliness and WORLDY
lusts,
we should live soberly,
righteously,
and godly,
in this present world;

JESUS DOES NOT PRAY FOR THE WORLD: THE WORLD IMPOSES MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Pind. O. 11 My tongue wants to foster such themes; [10] but it is by the gift of a
god that a man flourishes with a skillful mind, as with anything else.
For the present rest assured, Hagesidamus son of Archestratus: for the
sake of your boxing victory,

I shall loudly sing a sweet song, an
adornment for your garland of golden olive,
[15] while I honor the race
of the Western Locrians.
There, Muses, join in the victory-song; I
shall pledge my word to you that we will find there a race that does
not repel the stranger, or is inexperienced in fine deeds, but one that
is wise and warlike too.

THE WORLD IS IMPOSED WHEN PEOPLE IMPOSE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS WHICH DEFEATS THE LAMBS.

Aeschin. 3 229 he knew that he had not the ability to describe one of all the things
he had accomplished, but saw in his accuser a man able to set forth to
the hearers in all detail how he had himself administered things which
had not been done by him at all. But when a man who is made up of
words, and those words bitter words and useless—when such a man takes
refuge in “simplicity” and “the facts,” who could have patience with
him? If you treat him as you might a clarinet, and take out his tongue,
you have nothing left!

1 Cor 11:[14]
Doesn't even nature itself teach you that
if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
1 Cor 11:[15]
But if a woman
has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a
covering

Ephesians 6.[12]
For our wrestling is not
against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the
powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and
against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Then
and now everyone knows that making music is works-intensive
and
"legalism" meaning making music to force the laws of Apollyon or
Abaddon as NOMOS.

Aristotle
Politics 1341band
all the instruments
that require
manual skill. And indeed
there is a
reasonable
foundation for the story that
was told by the
ancients about the flute. The tale goes that Athena found a flute
and threw
it away. Now
it is not a bad point in the
story that the
goddess did this out of
annoyance because of the ugly
distortion of her
features; but as a matter of
fact it is more
likely that it
was because
education in flute-playing has
no effect on the
intelligence, whereas
we
attribute science and art to Athena

And since we
reject
professional education in the
instruments and in performanceand we count
performance in competitions as professional,for the performer does
not take
part in itfor
his own improvement, but
for his hearers'pleasure,
and that a vulgarpleasure,
owingto
which we do not consider performing to beproper
for free men, but somewhat menial;and indeed performers do
become vulgar, since theobject at
which they aim
is a low
one,
as
vulgarity in the audience
usually influences the music, so that it
imparts to the artistswho practise it with a
view
to suit the audience a special
kind of
personality,

Appealing
to Aldus Huxley to validate turning from the Word to the performing
arts must accept he also said that this performance induces a perverted
manner into
the habitual performers. Plato observed the same
thing.

Psal-tikosA. of or for harp playing, ps. organon
a stringed instrument, (of themagadis)A
or secret worship, of the rites
of Bacchus, Phallikos, of or for the phallos:
to ph. (sc. MELOS)
the phallic song,also
a dance,

Galliambus, i, m.
[3. Gallus, II. A.] , a
song of the priests [a castratos] of . [The Popes A capellas were GALLIAMBUS:
don't do that in church, please]

Paul warning about passing
judgment did not
give others the right to wreck my life whileI have no right
to
condemn you: passing judgment is IMPOSING things into the assembly
which causes discord. It is consistent with those imposing music that
they take into account the loss of a large part of the "owners" because
they have a higher use and appeal to the law of IMMINENTDOMAIN. In Paul's words, creating such mental
arousal as to separate the body is to CRUCIFY CHRIST to yourself all
over.

The
purpose of instruments under the law as well as psalms as warrior
chants was to magnify their power to delibertly disturb ot sow discord:
they are therefore violent people. Passing judgment is imposing pagan
musical rituals to sow discord.

Dis-turboI.to
drive asunder, to separate by violence,to throw into disorder,disturb. judicium,
to give his vote; of a judge (different
from sententiam ferre, to pass sentence)

Musical instruments bring
on the WRATH which Paul tried to prevent by
allowing only senior males to perform publically:

OrgaoI. to be getting
ready to bear, growing
ripe for something, II. of men, like sphrigaô,
swell with lust, wax
wanton, be rampant, aphrodisiois mainomenos [Zoe: mad women in Corinth], to
be in heat, desire sexual intercourse, organ pros
tên homilian, 2. generally, to be eager or ready,
to be excited, judge under
the influence of passion.

Paul restricted women specificially
whose
flailing unholy arms brings on wrath or an ORGY. This
spiritual
anxiety Jesud outlawed along with the burden laders is what PREVENTS
the understanding of the Word as the only true purpose for the assembly.

Peter said that we should ave us from this CROOKED
generation. All of history knows that music was for
"entertainment" only and
appealed--according to the classics and church fathers--to the lower
classes. This crooked generation was the enemy beginning with the
"serpent" in the garden of Eden who is defined throughout that area as
a Musical Enchanter(ess). Isaiah defines "Lucifer as the
singing
and harp playing prostitute in the garden of Eden."

Acts
2:40 And with
many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves
from this untoward
[crooked] generation.

Skolion[sub. melos]
a
song which went round at banquets, sung to the lyre by the
guests, Ar.; so
called
from its zigzag course-- each guest who sung
holding a
myrtle-branch murrinê, which he passed
across the table to any one he chose.

This
is the only meaning of "musical" melody and Jesus and Paul calls it
crooked. This was invented by Sappho as the prototypical Lesbian.
Aristonexus is used by Burgess, Johnson, Payne etc as their authority
for PLUCKING in church.

What
Melicpoetry
like Sappho's
actually was is best comprehended in the light of Plato's definition
of melos, that it is 'compounded out of three things, speech, music,
and rhythm.' Sappho is said
by Athenaeus,
quoting Menaechmus and Aristoxenus, to have been the first of the
Greek poets to use the Pêktis (pêktis), a foreign instrument
of uncertain
form, a kind
of
harp
(cf. fr.
122),
which was played by the fingers
without a plectrum.
Wharton's Life of
Sappho

Lesbia. 16. But whenever these
poems
were written, they spring from experiences that did nottouch deeply the soul of the
writer. A
passing
fancy, a moment's passion, an evanescent humor brought them forth.
But at Rome, and not long after he arrived at Rome, Catullus met the mastering
passion of his life, and
beside the verses to which it gave birth the melodious
chamber
ditties of Horace and
the elaborated passions of the elegiasts
are but as tinklingcymbals.

To
the woman who exercised this
wonderful power over him he gives the name of Lesbia. But more often he is
not content with a name, and
the familiar terms of endearment flow from his lips with a newer and
deeper meaning;

for
he delights to
feel that though his experience is on the outside like that of other
men,
his mistress is peerless in
virtues and his love for her a love passing that of
women

Now, HERE is the
audition for the Musical
Worship Team.

(a) from
skolios crooked, because of the
crooked order of the singers, the
bad singers being passed over,or the couches being crookedly
arranged, later, the omission
of the badsingers
being ascribed to the difficulty or non-social
character of the songs skolion, or it was said that
the songs were easy, but
appeared difficult to drunken revellers,

Lynn
Anderson etal:Gal. 1:5 To whom be glory
for ever and ever. Amen.

Paul
defined the ekklesia
or synagogue in Romans 15 from which he EXCLUDED "Areskos" or
self-pleasure which includes ALL of the hypocritic arts. The
literature describes a "demagogue who appeases the mases using the
performing arts" and connects the word "kleptoma."

The
ONLY way he defines a
way to GLORIFY God or praise God is to speak with ONE MIND and ONE
MOUTH using "that which is written." This educates, comforts with
Scripture and PREVENTS disunity. It is not possible to watch
performing musicians without giving the glory to THEM: that is why they
perform.

Lynn
Anderson etal:Gal.
1:6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him
that called you
into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Gal.
1:7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble [compel] you, and
would pervert the gospel of Christ.

Peter warned us to save OURSELVES from this crooked race:
this points directly to the "getting fluted down with wine" symposium
where the FLUTE-girl and HARP-girl were at a premium WHEN they wanted
to get aroused. Even in these vile places of "religious festivals" when
they needed to discuss something important they told the flute-girls to
"go outside and play with yourselves." Good advice.

I
know, too, of Polystratus of Athens,
nicknamed
the Etruscan, and a disciple of Theophrastus, that he used to clothe
himself in the garments of the flute-girls.

Even princes
were often excited over flute-girls and harp-girls,
as is made clear by Parmenio in the Letter to Alexander
dispatched to him after the capture of Damascus, when he came into
possession of Darius's household goods. Having caused an inventory to
be made of the captured stuff, he writes also the following:

"I discovered concubines of the king
who played musical instruments, to the number of 329;
men employed to weave chaplets, 46; caterers, 277; kettle-tenders, 29;
pudding-makers, 13; bartenders, 17; wine-clarifiers, 70; perfume-
makers, 14."

The instrumentalists appeal to Alexander to
prove that PSALLO meant to play instruments: However, ALL of the
passages they point to as PROOF speak of older males, like Alexander,
who PLUCKED his harp so skillfully that it shamed his father: he was
plucking his harp to pluck a young man who had been plucked as "youth
minister."

Because
the "gospel" gives us freedom from any but those who let us REST and
learn the word, the gospel is perverted by music or any kind of
theatrical or hypocritic performance

Lynn
Anderson etal:Gal.
1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach
any other gospel unto you than that which we have
preached unto you, let him be
accursed.Gal. 1:9 As we said before, so say I now
again, If any man preach any
other gospel unto you than that ye have received,let
him be accursed. Gal.
1:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please
men? for if I yetpleasedmen,I should not be the
servant of Christ.

Self pleasure is
what Paul OUTLAWED for the ekklesia, synagogu or school of the Bible:

Rom 15:1 WE then that are strong ought to bear the
infirmities of
the weak, and not to pleaseourselves

THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM INVOLVES ONLY WHAT JESUS THE KING TAUGHT.

Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen

The
weak are the infirm
and that includes lots of old people and most people to some extent.
What the performers think is spiritual is creating the "spiritual
anxiety" died to remove. No one goes away from a "musical" performance
not being damaged by decibelpoisoning
and a "drug" high.

Aresko (g700) ar-es'-ko; prob. from 142 (through
the idea
of exciting emotion); to be agreeable (or by impl. to seek
to beso): - please.

The included Attic
word Airô to raise up, exalt,
Aesch.:--of passion, to exalt, excite, hupsou airein thumon
to grow
excited, to raise by
words, to extol, exaggerate, to take
up for oneself: to carry off, win, gain

SustinereI.
to hold up, hold upright,uphold, to bearup,keep up, support,sustain1.To
sustain, support, maintain,
by food, money, or other means (maintain, preserve with dignity of a citizenII.
Concr., the citizens united in a community, the
body - politic, the state,
and as this consists of one city and its territory, or of several
cities, it differs from urbs, i.e. the compass of the dwellings of the
collected citizens;

Imbecillitas Caes. B. G. 7, 77, 9

Caes.
B. G. 7, 77, 9 Caesar, Gallic War 7.77.
LXXVII. But those who were blockaded at Alesia , the day being past, on
which they had expected auxiliaries from their countrymen, and all
their corn being consumed ignorant of what was going on
among the Aedui, convened an assembly [ConciliumPastorium] and deliberated
on the exigency of their situation. After various opinions had been
expressed among them, some of which proposed a surrender, others a
sally, while their strength would support it, the speech of Critognatus
ought not to be omitted for its singular and detestable
cruelty.

Ezek XXXIV.
The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, [2]
Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of
Israel, prophesy,
and tell them,
even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the shepherds
of Israel who feedthemselves!
Shouldn't the shepherds feed the sheep?[3]
You eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool,
you kill the fatlings; but you don't feed
the sheep.[4]
You haven't strengthened the diseased,
neither have you healed that
which was sick, neither have you bound up that
which was broken,
neither have you brought back that which was driven away,
neither have
you sought that which was lost; but with force
and
with rigor have you ruled
over them. [5]
They were
scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they
became food to all
the animals of the field, and were scattered.

Eph 4:[11] He gave some to
be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds
and teachers; [12] for the
perfecting of the
saints, to the work of serving, to the buildingup
of the body of Christ; [13]
until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and
of the knowledge of
the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure
of the stature of
the fullness of Christ

Outlawed:
Placeo to please, to be pleasing or
agreeable, to be welcome, acceptable, to satisfy (class.).1.
In scenic lang.,
of players or pieces
presented, to please,
find favor, give
satisfaction: scenico placenti

Rom. 8:8 So then they that are in the
flesh cannot please God.
Rom. 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the
Spirit,
if so be
that the Spirit ofGod dwell in
you.
Now if
any man have not the Spirit ofChrist,
he is none of his.

I believe in a God who speaks clearly through His Inspired
Word. His important truths are readily
apparent
throughout the whole of
scripture. Certainly there are finer nuances to be gleaned by
deeper
study, but He does not leave us to guess where He stands and then hope
to escape the wrath of hell if we guess wrong.
I believe that all scripture is “inspired by God” (2Tim.
3:16).

I have heard it said many times that the Bibledoesn’t
address the issue of instrumental worship for the
church and that it is conspicuously missing.

Sorry, but I have never heard that the Bible
doesn't address instruments except from instrumental
apologists: I think they meant that the Bible did not authorize
it. The most overwhelming issue of the Old Testament is the
clergy being abandoned to pagan music
and the prophets universally
condemning them as robbers and parasites JUST what God promised when
the elders fired God and hired a DOMINANT PREACHER. God didn't tell you
that you cannot be a hypocrite either:

II.
of
actors,
to answer
on the
stage:
hence to play a
part,
be an actor
2. to represent dramatically: hence to exaggerate
3. metaph. to play a
part,
to feign, pretend, c. inf.,
id=Dem.

Latincanto I. Neutr., to produce melodious sounds (by the voice or an
instrument), to
sound, sing, play (class. in prose and
poetry; to sing and play while
the actor accompanies the song with gestures or dancing, C. Transf.,
of instruments, to sound, resound:

II.
In partic., in a bad sense,
one who, by flattery and buffoonery, manages to live at
another's expense, a sponger, toad-eater, parasite

Some claim that God is silent and his silence
gives ME the right to impose new practices whih BECOME the words of God
which cannot be disputed. And so totally inspired that they claim that
God COMMANDED instrumental praise and we must not be disobedient.

When God brought Israel out of Egypt by pure grace, He gave them The
Book of the Covenant. They agreed to keep it but refused to listen to
the voice of God. While Moses was on the mountain getting a written
code of grace, the people rose up in musical idolatry. For that
transgression God removed Grace and gave them The Book of The Law and
turned them over to worship the starry host.

Exod
32:1 AND when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down
out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron,
and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go
before us; for as
for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
we wot not what is become of him.

Exod
32:2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the goldenearrings,
which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons,
and of your
daughters, and bring them unto me.

Exod
32:3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which
were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.

Exod
32:4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it
with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they
said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought
thee up out of the
land of Egypt.

Exod
32:5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and
Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast
to the Lord.

Exod
32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt
offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to
eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

"The
triumphal hymn
of Moses had unquestionably a religious character about it; but the
employment of music
in
religious services, though
idolatrous, is
more
distinctly marked
in the festivities which attended the erection of the golden calf."
(Smith's Bible Dictionary, Music, p. 589).

"In
the New Testament there is
nowhere any emphasis laid on the musical form of the hymns; and in
particular none on instrumental
accompaniment whereas
this is significantly paganism." (Delling, Gerhard,
Worship in the New Testament,
trans. Percy Scott Phil. Westminster press, 1962, p. 86).

Both the
Greek and Latin define this is MUSICAL IDOLATRY;

LudoA.To
sport, play with any thing, to practise as a
pastime, amuse one's self with any thing.
B.To sport, dally, wanton (cf. "amorous play,

Let us pass
on now to theatrical
exhibitions, which
we
have already shown have a common origin with the circus
[Circe=church],
and bear like idolatrous designations-even as
from the first they have borne
the name of "Ludi," and equally minister to idols.

They
resemble each
other also in their pomp,
having the same procession to the scene of their display from temples and altars,
and that mournful profusion of incense
and blood,.........with music of pipes
and trumpets,........all under the direction of the soothsayer and the undertaker,........those two foul
masters of funeral
rites and sacrifices.

2
Peter 2:13 And shall receive
the reward of unrighteousness, ..........as they that count
it pleasure to
riot in the day time. ..........Spots they are
and blemishes, sporting themselves ..........with their own
deceivings [delusions] while
they feast with you;..........All musicians
and rhetoricians
are equated to parasites.

Entrupo (g1792) en-troo-fah'-o;
from 1722 and
5171; to revel in: - sporting selves.gamêliôi
lechei [marriage
couch-bed] hêdonais,
playing
in the wind, exult
over,
treat
haughtily or
contemptuously, made a mock
of, tinos
sumphorais, III.
use or abuse at pleasure

Exod 32:17 And when Joshua
heard the noise of the people as they
shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war
in the camp.

Lam.
2:6 And he hath1. violently taken
away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden:

2.
he hath destroyed his places of the assembly:
[h4150 synagogues: good and bad]

the LORD
hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be
forgotten in Zion, and hath despised
in the indignation of his anger
the king and the priest.

Hos 8:3 Israel hath
cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.

Hos 8:4 They have set
up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I
knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols,
that they may be cut off.

Hos 8:5 Thy calf, O
Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how
long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

Hos. 13:11 I gave thee a king
in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.

3.
The Lord hath cast
off his altar (candlestick), he hath abhorred his sanctuary,
he hath
given up into
the hand
of the enemy the walls of her
palaces;
they have made
a
noise
in the house [Temple]
of
the Lord, as in the day of a solemnfeast.
Lam 2:7

WES:
2:7 They - The enemies with their triumphs and blasphemies, made as
great a noise, as those that sang holy songs, or played
on instruments,
were wont to make to the glory of God.

Exod 32:18 And he said, It
is not the voice of them that shout for
mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry
for being overcome; but the noise of them that sing
do I hear.

Paul warned both
the Romans and Corinthians about this musical idolatry

1Co.10:7 Neither be ye idolaters,
as were some of them; as it is
written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

E.Ba.161Euripides
BacchaeChorus[135] He
is sweet in the mountains,
whenever after the running dance he falls on the
ground, wearing the
sacred garment of fawn skin, hunting the blood of the slain goat, a raw-eaten
delight, rushing to the [140]
Phrygian, the Lydianmountains,
and the leader of the dance is Bromius, evoe! The plain flows
with milk, it flows
with
wine, it flows with the nectar of bees. [145]
The Bacchic one, raising the flaming torch of pine on his thyrsos, like
the smoke of Syrian incense, darts about, arousing
the wanderers[planetes[Wandering
stars]with
his racing and dancing, agitating
them with his
shouts, [150]
casting his richlocks into the
air. And among the Maenad cries his voice ringsdeep:
“Go, Bacchae, go, Bacchae, with the luxury of Tmolus that flows with
gold, [155]sing of Dionysus,
beneath
the heavy beat of drums, celebrating in delight
the god of delight with Phrygian shouts and cries, [160]
when the sweet-sounding sacred pipe sounds a sacred
playful
tune suited [165] to
the wanderers, to the mountain, to the
mountain!” And the
Bacchante,
rejoicing like a foal with its grazing mother,
rouses her swift foot in
a gamboling dance

Lynn
Anderson etal:Is
not the Old Testament part of our Bible? Is it not part of
all
scripture? Was it not written to teach us
about God (Ro. 15:4) and
what He values (love, justice, mercy, faith, worship, etc.) and what He
hates (evil, idolatry, etc.)? When the
early church gathered to
worship, what scripture did they study together - not the New Testament
- it had not been written yet. What was their hymnbook? - the
psalms,
which over and over include mandates to use instruments

Rom
15:4 “For everything that was written in
the past was written to teach us, so that through
endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures
we might have hope.”

Paul excludes the diversities of Romans 15 and defines the ekklesia or
synagogue or school of the Bible in Romans 15: the teaching was done by
speaking "that which is written" using one mind and one mouth.
Self-pleasure excludes all form of theatrics especially exhibitionism
which was a female or perverted mark.

This
was written for our learning including telling us that Israel fell from
Grace because of musical idolatry. Because there is no
exception
to this radical condemnation, it is not possible for anyone taking an
honest look at the text to conclude that it teaches us to DO that which
caused God to abandon them to musical idolatry in national-only animal
sacrifices.

1Cor.
10:6 Now these things were our examples,
to the
intent we should not lust after evil things, as
they also lusted.
1Cor. 10:7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of
them; as it is written,
The
people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

"The
triumphal hymn of Moses had unquestionably a
religious character about it; but the employment of music
in religious
services, though
idolatrous, is more
distinctly marked
in the festivities which attended the erection of the golden calf."
(Smith's Bible Dictionary, Music, p. 589).

"They
sat down to eat and
drink and rose up to play. They practiced rites in which they made
themselves naked, perhaps similar to those which were carried out by naked
Babylonian
priests."
(Woodrow, p.
158)

Anton Marks "We
know that all of the Israelites brought Egyptian gods and practices with them
and it is not far-fetched to
think that Miriam, who had not yet been exposed to the Covenant, was
part of the consciousness-altering
rhythmsand which
was part of apriestly
myth-play
brought to
destructive
consummation at Mount Sinai as the golden calf was called back into
action.

This
"rising up to play" involved eating,
drinking, nakedness and musical
worship. The
goddess, Hathor,
is the best candidate for theMother Goddess of the Mount Sinai
idolatry. Here priestessess or prophetesses
were
highly trained with musicalinstruments,
cultic songs and be able to
join in the religious dance.

1Cor.
10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they
are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are
come.

When Paul addressed those areas where
pagan singing with
instruments--and music included the whole body--he commanded that the SPEAK
"that which is written" (Rom 15), The Spirit (Eph 5; John 6:63)
or the Word of Christ (Col 3.) These were all forms of the BOOK of
Psalms or other inspired text. Modern writers do not write
inspired Scripture.

Where there were numerous prophets which usually meang prophesiers or
mad singing and playing people who arroused you to pick your pocket,
Peter told the churches to give attention to the PROPHETS and the Day
Star would arise in their hearts.

The reason for both is that Peter left a written memory and claimed
that it was from an eye and ear witness of Jesus Christ Who validated
HIS mission by working miracles. Therefore, singing that
which is
written is a MARK as the only real way we can identify what Paul
identified as the pagan, perferted performers. A teacher who
did
not "teach that which is written" was marked as a false teacher. That
is why God put that authority in the hands of Pastor-Teachers as the
elders and not young professional performers to put on a show.

Jesus had a bound copy of the Greek version: maybe similar to the one
the eunuch was reading so that he knew that baptism was prophesied.
The meaning of a Scribe was that they would be at every major
event taking notes and making copies to sell before the audience got
away. Everything that Jesus said would be recorded and became
short accounts.

Therefore, they would need nothing more to assemble to read whatever
text they had, discuss it and be admonished to observe it. With the
addition of the Lord's Supper they could conduct "church" until Jesus
comes.

Lynn
Anderson etal:Psa
4:1 For the director of music. With
stringed instruments.
Psa 5:1 For the director of music. For
flutes.
Psa 6:1 For the director of music. With
stringed instruments.
Psa 33:2 Praise the LORD with the harp; make music to him on
the ten-stringed lyre.
Psa 33:3 Sing to him a new song; play skillfully, and shout
for joy.
Psa 43:4 Then will I go to the altar of God, to God, my joy
and
my delight. I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God.
Psa 47:5 God has ascended amid shouts of joy, the LORD amid
the sounding of trumpets.
Psa 49:4 I will turn my ear to a proverb; with the harp I
will expound my riddle:
Psa 54:1 For the director of music.
With stringed instruments.
Psa 55:1 For the director of music. With stringed instruments.
Psa 61:1 For the director of music. With stringed instruments.
Psa 67:1 For the director of music. With stringed instruments.

Who
is the chief Musician: the truth is that he is often the slave driver.

Commentators and critics
have confessed that
they can make only conjectures as to the primitive meaning and use of
the word (for it is only one word in Hebrew) lamenazzeah.

The Ancient Versions attempt a
rendering.
The Sept. has eis to
telos = unto,
for, or, with a view to
the end. The Arabic, Ethiopic, and Vulgate render it "at the
end". The Chald. renders it (Ps. 45) "to the
praise". The
Talmudists hold that it related to Him Who is to come; while Aquila
(one of the Sept. Revisers, A.D. 130) renders it "to Nikopoio" = to the
giver of victory.

It is clear that a Person
was intended by these
various renderings; but they appear to be interpretations rather than
translations. Regarded as the former, they may be useful in
showing us how the Psalms point to Christ; for He is the end.
It is He Who giveth victory; it is He Who is the Coming One :
and, while the book is called SepherTehillim, the Bookof
Praises, it is
He Who
"inhabiteth the praises of Israel" (Ps. 22:3).

All ancient Hebrew
manuscripts, with the early
and best later printed editions, show no break whatever between the
lines of one Psalm and another.

The Septuagint translators
had been many years
in Babylon, and the oldest among them must have been very young when
carried away thither.

There was none who had full
knowledge and
experience of the ancient usages of the Temple worship.

Consequently, when they came
to their task some
197 years after the latest carrying away to Babylon, there was
nothing to show them where one Psalm ended and where the next
began.

Hence, when they came to the
word lamenazzeah,
"To the chief Musician", they took it as being the first line
of a Psalm, instead of the last line
of the preceding
Psalm which they had just translated. All subsequent
Versions,
in all languages, have followed them in this mistake. For
mistake it was, as we may see from the only two examples of
independent Psalms given us in the Scriptures : viz. Isa.
38:9-20, and Hab. 3.

In each of these isolated
Psalms we have the
true models on which all the other Psalms are based.

In each case we have
1. The Super-scription,
or Title
proper.
2. The body of the Psalm
itself.
3. The Sub-scription.

In each of these two cases
the word lamenazzeah forms the sub-scription, and appears
at the end of the Psalm. Those who "set
forward" the
work of the temple
excelled which means:

Nacach
(h5329) naw-tsakh'; to glitter from afar, to
be eminent
as
a superintendent,
especially of the
Temple services and its
music;
also to be permanent, to excel, chief musician, singer, overseer, set
forward.
(The Worship team or Minister of Music is the overseer or anxiety
inducer).

Of which, twenty and four
thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the
Lord; and six
thousand were officers
and judges: 1Chr.23:4

There were also women
musical singers "for my
own pleasure" or my "musical instruments" or "my concubines" but
there were never any Levitical women
worship team members.

Another description shows
that the musical
worship teams were the overseers of the group:

Paqiyd (h6496)
paw-keed'; from 6485; a superintendent
(civil,
military
or religious):
- which had the charge, governor, office, overseer,
[that] was set.

Of the sons of Asaph, the singers
were over the business
of the
house of God.
Ne.11:22b
Godly people performed no work on the REST DAY: work involved sending out ministers of God.

The
singers and musicians were eminent (famous,
celebrated, conspicuous or
exalted). They were the
chief singers,
set forward to advance the
work
of the institution. They were in charge, they were officers, they were the overseers
of the "flock."
This was
not because of the elders or tribal
leaders
approved.
Rather, the chief "lion" organized his own teams to grasp
ruler ship after the wars were over. This led to the displacement of
the religious institution by the "peace party." However, when they
cry "peace, peace" we had better watch out.

And
the young
men
that were brought up with him spake
unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto
thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it
somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little
finger shall be thicker than my fathers loins. 2 Chron 10:10

For
whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I
will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips,
but I will chastise you with scorpions. 2 Chron
10:11

And
answered them after the advice of the young
men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto:
my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with
scorpions. 2 Chron 10:14

"In
the Septuagint
psalmos occurs some 67 times in the titles to the Psalms.
In most cases it is the translation of the Hebrew mismor, but in a few cases it
translates other Hebrew
words.

Psalmos
means simply
"song
of
praise." The frequency
with which the word psalmos occurs in the titles is probably the
reason why the Book of Psalms is called in the LXX version simply psalmoi. In the Hebrew it is
called tehillim.

I
will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregationwill I praise thee.
Psalm 22:22

"There
is nothing in the
context of these two passages requiring us to regard "psalms" as
referring to uninspired
compositions.

On
the other hand,
there are abundant instances in the usage of Scripture elsewhere
which show that the word "psalm"
refers to an inspired
composition.

"Furthermore,
there is no
instance in which the
word "psalm," as used with reference to a song of praise to God, can
be shown to refer to an uninspiredsong.

It
is therefore
quite unwarranted to regard "psalms"
in these two passages as referring to uninspired songs, whereas there is
abundant warrant for regarding
them as denoting inspired
compositions.

Probably most
churches do NOT follow that
direct command and are therefore not informed. Paul outlawed
SELF-pleasure which we have proven excludes all forms of arousal
singing or instruments. He further defined the METHOD of
teaching
"that which is written." He said us ONE MIND and ONE MOUTH as the way
to educate, glorify or praise God, comfort WITH the Scriptures and
thereby keep the unity of the body. No one in history has ever imposed
music without knowing that they would sow discord which IS a burnable
offense.

No musical performers SPEAK that which is written in UNISON and
therefore violate the direct command for the teaching purpose and the
method of teaching: rarely will a Physics professor let some musician
rewrite his lectures and perform them with a musical band.

Lynn
Anderson etal:III.
God Never Changes

I believe in a God that never changes. He is not given to
whims and
fancies that come and go. A loving God would not desire and
command
something at one time (Num. 10:2, Ps. 98, 150, I Chron. 25:6, etc.),
later decide that He hates it (and neglect to mention that fact - just
expect us to guess it), then change His mind again and require it (I
Cor. 15:52, I Thess. 4:16, Rev. 5:8, 8:2, 14:2, 15:2). God
does not
change.

That
is partly true: Jacob cursed the tribe of Levi and warned us NOT to
attend their assemblies or enter into covenant with them Genesis
49

People lived under the Abrahamiccovenant
of Grace before they fell
into musicalidolatry at Mount
Sinai. God abandoned the national system
of kings and priests to make war and conduct NATIONALanimal
sacrifices
to which the people's congregation never attended. The
serpent in
the garden of Eden was a "musical enchanter(ess)". The
king/queen
of Tyre was typical of Lucifer called the "singing and harp playing
prostitute" in the garden of Eden. There are examples of instrumental
music during the Patriarchal period and the concept is of giving Jacob
a musical party so that he did not even know that he was wedding the
wrong woman.

If God abandones you to idolatry then maybe God DOES change: He always
changes when we repent.
The assembly for instruction didNOT
change when the curse of musical-sacrificial terror was IMPOSED.

Gal.
3:14 That
the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles
through Jesus
Christ;
that we might receive the promise of the
Spirit through faith. Gal.
3:15 Brethren,
I speak after the manner of men;
Though it
be but a man’s covenant, yet if it be confirmed,
no man disannulleth,
or addeth
thereto.

By appealing to the Law imposed
because of musical idolatry one defacto
rejects the Covenant of Grace destroyed BY musical idolatry.

Gal.
3:16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promisesmade.
He saith not,
And to seeds, as of many; but as of one,
And to
thy seed, which is Christ. Gal.
3:19 Wherefore then serveth the law?
It was
added because of transgressions,
till the
seed should come to whom the promise was made;
and it
was ordained by angels in the HAND
of a mediator.

After we are
baptized into Christ:

Gal.
3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor
free,
there is
neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. Gal.
3:29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’sseed,
and heirs
according to the promise.

At the
same time the Qahal, synagogue or church in the wilderness was
ordained for all of the rest as a school of the Bible. It excluded
vocal and instrumental rejoicing.

That neer changed and the synagogue was all that was left for the most
part after the Return.

Lynn
Anderson etal:A.
Old Testament
1. Pre-Davidic

Ex. 15:20 - Pre-Davidic – “Miriam,
the prophetess, sister of Aaron and
Moses, took a timbrel in her hand and led the women in her song of
praise.”

Job writes of the time before Miriam:

Mark me, and be astonished, and lay
your hand upon
your mouth Job 21:5 .
Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my
flesh. Job 21:6

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea,
are mighty
in power? Job 21:7

Their seed is established in their sight with
them,
and their offspring before their eyes.
Job 21:8Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the
rod of God
upon them. Job 21:9Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow
calveth,
and casteth not her calf. Job 21:10They send forth their little ones like a flock,
and their
children dance. Job 21:11They take the timbrel and harp,
and rejoice
at the sound of the organ. Job
21:12
[The evil take wind, string
and percussion instruments]They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment
go down to
the grave. Job 21:13

Therefore
they say unto God, Depart from
us;
for we desire not the
knowledge of thy ways. Job 21:14

What is the
Almighty, that we should
serve him?
and what profit should
we have,
if we pray unto him?
Job 21:15

Lo, their good is not in their hand:
the counsel of the wicked
is far from me.
Job 21:16
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out
and how oft cometh their
destruction upon
them!
God distributeth sorrows in
his anger. Job
21:17They are as stubble before
the wind, [baptism of
the spirit]
and as chaff
that the storm
carrieth away. Job 21:18

Of the pipe which Jubal handles meaning without authority:"It
(the pipe meaning to love passionately) was apparently a secular
instrument and is never listed in the temple orchestra; only in Ps.
150:4 it is mentioned in a religious (but not ritual) function. Its
ethos was not blameless at all, as we see from Genesis Rabbah 50:

"The angels said to Lot: There are players of the pipe
(organ)
in the
country, hence it ought to be destroyed. Its rabbinical identification
with the aboda, the flute of the notorious Syrian bayaderes, emphasizes
the erotic element which already the Hebrew name suggests.
(Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, p. 460, Abingdon).

Organum -Of musical instruments, a pipe, Vulg.
Gen. 4,
21; an organ, water-organ: organa hydraulica, -Of a
church-organOrganon,
to, ( [ergon, erdô] ) a Musical instrument: a machine for doing
hard
work in making war and creating the "arousal" in pagan ceremonial
legalism

All
musical terms and names of instruments speak of casting a spell: John
called the speakers, singers and instrument players in Revelation 18
SORCERERS. They worked UNDER the Mother of Harlots (Rev 17)

Music is the MARK god reserved only for those making war on His people
as they try to "wear out the saints" to worship THEM.

When
Israel fell into musical idolatry, the Law was written to warn a people
condemned to return to their Assyrian and Babylonian roots.
Babylonian tablets were up to 3,000 years old when Moses was
born. That is where we understand what the end Time Babylon Mother of
Harlots means. Inanna got the Ea (Lamech) the patron god of music drunk
and stole the magical chants--the ME: these included the power over the
eldership, the power over musical performers and the power of
homosexual seduction and many more.

"Long
before Israel's existence, we find in
Akkadian tablets the word halhallatu for 'double clarinet,' and we
have many ancient representations of this instruments... it served
also to express extreme joy as well as deep mourning. Its liturgical
function is dubious, to say the least. According to Rabbinic
literature, the days were limited to twelve, or maximally eighteen,
when (it) was played before the altar.

"Extremely
popular for secular purposes the
(double clarinet) was played at weddings, banquets, and funerals. At
funerals it served as accompaniment to the customary wailing
women;
this is the meaning of Matt. 9:23. The chief characteristics of the
clarinet were: popularity, juxtaposition with hand drum and lyre,
expression of extreme emotionalism, and symbolic
meaning of fertility
and resurrection." (Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible, p. 472,
Abingdon).

Living in the princely quarters
Miriam would automatically be a prophetess of Hathor,
the female counterpart to Apis the golden calf
worshipped at Mount sinai. These represented the Egyptian
trinity
of Osiris, Isis and infant Horus. The name of her prophesying is called
"soothsaying." When she pretended to speak for God
she got slapped with
a dose of leprosy and dissapears. Miriam means "bitter
waters"
and is the likely prototypical usurping woman in Paul's writings:

Theodoret (Quasten, Music
& Worship, p. 65) claimed that the Jews broughtliturgical
music from
Egypt
and Philo wrote that "Moses
learned rhythm, harmony, meter and everything concerned with
instrumental music from the Egyptians." This is why Moses knew that
the noise
at Mount Sinai was not
the sound of defeat or of victory.
Rather, it
was the "sound of them singing that I hear."

The
Jews
sang
in the type of
the Egyptian
threnodies (elegies for the
dead):Thus they made a golden bull, the image of
an animal that was held to be the most sacred in that land;

they
offered unholy sacrifices, performed impious dances and sang
hymns
which differed in no way from the pagan mourningsongs. Philo, De specialibus
legibus

[Jesus
threw them out more or
less violently like dung]

"This
reference probably indicates the use of
songs from the cult of Osiris...
it can hardly be
denied that Egyptian influence on
Jewish musical practices was quite significant. This would stand to
reason because of the high quality of Egyptian cultic
music.
The tambourine
or timbrel, a hoop of bells over which a white skin was stretched,
came from Egypt.Miriam
used this instrumentto
accompany the singing
and dancing on the shores
of the Red
Sea (Ex. 15).

"The
trumpet... was the signaling
instrument of the Egyptian
army.
The name of the Sistrum (2 Sam 6:5) was mena'ane'im. It was the Egyptian kemken used in the
cult of Isis.

The
music during the transferring
the Ark to Sion (David
rose up to play)and the dances of the women at the Shiloh(Judges
21:21), were similar to the Egyptian
liturgy and parades.

"As
Herodotus reports, women sang the praises
of Osiris
while liknesses of the gods were born
about
and, during
the festival of Diana at
Bubastis,
Women's singing was a
vital part of all paganworship.
In very
times women became priestly
singers of the gods in the temple.

When
males do that in the presence of God they have dug deeper than any male
in paganism unless it is recorded "he was drunk, perverted or just
having fun."

"Women
and girls
from the different ranks of society were proud to enter the service
of the gods as singers
and musicians. The
understanding of this service was universal: these singers
constituted the 'harem
of the gods'."
(Johannes Quasten. In Music
and Worship in Pagan and
Christian
Antiquity, beginning on
page 41

"Hebrew music...
was used in the luxurious times of the later
monarchy theeffeminategallants of
israel, reeking with
perfumes, and stretched upon
their
couches of ivory, were wont at their banquets to accompany the song
with the tinkling
of the
psaltery or guitar (Am.
v1. 4-6), and amused themselves with devising musical instruments while their
nation was
perishing... music was
the legitimate expression of mirth
and gladness, and the indication of peace and prosperity." (Smith's
Bible Dictionary, Music, p. 590).

Here
is what God thought of her
"revelations."Take heed in
the plague of
leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that
the priests
the Levites
shall teach
you:
as I commanded
them, so ye shall observe to do. Deut 24:8 Remember
what the Lord thy God did
unto
Miriam by the way, after that ye were come
forth out of Egypt.
Deut 24:9

Here is
what Miriam did which was common to
what the Israelites did in Egypt and never ceased to do.Sistrum,a metallic rattle which was used by the Egyptians in celebrating the rites
of Isis, and in
other lascivious
festivals,.Ov.
Am. 2, 13, 11 By the
Jews, Vulg. 1 Reg. [Samuel] 18, 6 .--Hence sarcastically, as if used for a war
- trumpet by the wanton CleopatraVerg.
A.8.696Luc.
10.63

I Sam. 10:5 Samuel
tells the newly anointed King Saul that he would
meet “a band of prophets coming
down from the high place with harp,
tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying. Then
the Spirit
of the Lord will come mightily upon you, and you shall prophesy with
them and be turned into another man.” Wow - talk about
transforming
worship!

"This
is the first mention in
the OT of a band of prophets. These were men who went about in
companies and were able by means of music
and dancing
to work themselves up into a convulsive and ecstatic frenzy (2 Ki.
3:1-10).

Their
abnormality
was believed to be caused by the invasive influence of the spirit
of god. The word prophesied here does not
mean
either foretelling the future or preaching after the manner of the
later prophets,
but engaging in the ritual
dance of the prophetic guild (19:18-24). Their
behavior was commonly regarded as
a form of
madness (2 Ki.
9:11;
Jer. 29:26)" (The Int. Bible Ency., I Sam. p. 932).

And
the Lord said unto Samuel,
Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say
unto thee: for they have not
rejected thee, but they
have rejected me,
that
I should not reign
over them. 1
Samuel 8:7

According to all
the works which
they
have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto
this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served
other gods, so do
they also unto thee. 1 Samuel 8:8

2
Sam 6:16 And as the ark of
the Lord came into the city of David,............
Michal
Sauls daughter looked through a
window,............
and
saw king David leaping and dancing
before the Lord;............
and
she despised him in her
heart.

A.
To sport, play with any
thing, to practise as a pastime, amuse one's self with any thing:
illa ipsa ludens conjeci in communes locos, Cic. Par. prooem.: Prima
Syracosio dignata est ludere versu Nostra ... Thalia, Verg. E. 6, 1
.--Esp., to play on
an instrument
of music,
to
make or compose
music or song:

2
Sam 6:20 Then David returned
to bless his household.............
And
Michal the daughter of Saul came out
to meet David,............
and
said, How glorious was the king of
Israel to day,............
who
uncovered himself to day............
in
the eyes of the handmaids of his
servants,............
as
one of the vain fellows shamelessly
uncovereth himself

IncludedTumultuspulsoand psallo
have the same meaning: to push,
strike,beat, Of
military engines, Of musicalinstruments:
chordas digitis et pectine eburno,
to strike, play upon, cymbala,A.
In gen., to urge or drive on, to
impel, to set in violent motion,
to move, agitate,
disturb, disquiet:C.To drive away, remove,
put out of the way,

A. In gen., to
urge or drive on, to impel,
to set in violent
motion, to move, agitate,
disturb, disquiet:

Lynn
Anderson etal:2. Davidic
1 Chr 6:32 “They ministered with music before
the tabernacle, the Tent
of Meeting, until Solomon built the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem.
They performed their duties according to the regulations laid down for
them.” NIV

God gave Israel kings to carry out the captivity and death sentence imposed because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai.

Acts 7:41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol,
and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Acts 7:42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of
heaven;
as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of
Israel,
have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space
of forty years in the wilderness?
Acts 7:43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan,
figures which ye made to worship them:
and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

Acts 7:45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus
into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face
of our fathers, unto the days of David;

Acts 7:46 David Who found favour before God,
and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
Acts 7:47 But Solomon built him an house.
Acts 7:48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
Acts 7:49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house
will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?
Acts 7:50 Hath not my hand made all these things?
Acts 7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye
do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

That is the proof text Lynn Anderson and others
are using to sow discord and subvert your church: he is still honored
at ACU and LU!

When David sinned so that he could never again return to
GOD'S Tabernacle, God gave him a Jebusite High Place already fitted for
idolatry. David made his OWN tent and transferred the Ark and
the
singers to ZION (Nor Moriah totally consumed in paganism):

After
the processional with
music in which the ark was brought to Jerusalem it is said:

"The
ancient Tabernacle
was now
divided; the ark
was
brought into Zion, whereas the brazen altar at least, and probably
the vessels of the holy place (ex. 25:23-40; 37:10-28; 40:22-27),
were established in the high place at Gibeon.

Asaph
and the singers
(1 Chron. 6:31-47; 15:16-19; 16:5; 25:6) were left before the ark, while the
priests
ministered in Gibeon before the Tabernacle
(16:39)." (Schofield
Bible, p. 478-479).

"The
original
altar
of Burnt-offering
continued at Gibeon
with the Tabernacle (2 Chr. 1:3, 5). David must have erected a new
altar for sacrifice at Jerusalem.

>
The
sacrifices commanded
by the
Law were, it
appears, offered at the former place (Gibeon);> at the latter
were offered voluntary
additional sacrifices."
(Albert Barnes, 1 Chron, p.
347).

1Chr. 6:15 And Jehozadak went into captivity, when the LORD carried
away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

1Chr. 6:32 And they ministered before the dwelling place of the
tabernacle of the congregation with singing, until Solomon had built
the house of the LORD in Jerusalem: and then they waited on their
office according to their order.

The KJV uses the word SINGING: Zamar NEVER includes an instrument
without naming that instrument.

This
just means SINGING because David never
performed WORSHIP with either singing or instruments. Ecclesiasticus
was in the bound Bible Jesus quoted from:

48:8. In all
that he
did he gave thanks
to the Holy One, the Most High, with
ascriptions of
glory;..........HE sang
praise
with all his heart,
and he loved his
Maker.

48:9.
He placed singers
before the altar,..........to make
sweet
melody with their voices.

48:10. HE
gave beauty to the feasts,
and arranged their times throughout the year, ..........while
they praised God's holy name, ..........and the sanctuaryresounded
from early morning.

From
What the Bible Says

1Chr.
13:8 And David and all Israel played before God with all their might,
and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with
timbrels,
and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
1Chr. 13:9 And
when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his
hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
1Chr. 13:10 And the
anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because
he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God.
1Chr.
13:11 And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon
Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perezuzza to this day.

"we
recognize the
same elements: the sacrifices and libation, the cultic
feast in which the
congregation gets a share of food
and
drink after it has been blessed by the king, and the merry-making, now in the form of instrumental and vocal
music. But the
central act of the ritual, which was performed
by the
king, is called
literally 'drinking'
the
god (Gurney, O. R.
Some
Aspects of Hittite Religion, p. 33-34, Oxford University Press,
1977)

Lynn
Anderson etal:
1
Chr 15:16 David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint
their
brothers as singers to sing joyful songs, accompanied by musical
instruments: lyres, harps and cymbals.

These were LeviticalWarriorMusicians
under the KING and COMMANDERS
OF THE ARMY: the singing was ordained by the KING because
these were to give glory to the king whom God had
given in His Anger
and whom God said would destroy the nation: and they did.

1Chr.
25:1 Moreover David and the captains
of the host separated to the service[hard
bondage] of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun,
who should prophesy with harps,
with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen
according to their service was:

1Chr. 25:2 Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and
Asarelah, the sons of Asaph under the hands of Asaph, which prophesied according
to the order of the king.

"As we have seen in the
passage
discussed above (I Sam. 10:5-13), prophecy was intimately
associated with politics from the
very
first moment it appeared in Israel. The prophetic band was stationed
right next to a Philistinegarrison.
Their purpose was to incite
Israelites to engage in holywar
against the Philistinefoe, and
to
do this they must have sung, with the fervor of their ecstasy, war
songs which
aroused the people to action. Like the
charismatic judges of an earlier day, they were intoxicated
with 'enthusiasm."
(Anderson, Bernard, p. 231).

From
What the Bible Says

From
the warning of
God and the retrospective of Nehemiah and the statement that the "law
was against us" we know that the kings were imposed whey the elders
fired God. They were told that the kings would enslave them and carry
then into captivity and death. And because God had turned them over to
worship the starry host we understand that the military and clergy were
involved with thee worship of Dionysus which they had inherited from
Egypt as a curse:
1 Chr 25:1 David, together with the commanders
of the army, set apart
some of the sons of Asaph, Heman and Jeduthun for the ministry of
prophesying, accompanied by harps, lyres and cymbals. Here is the list
of the men who performed this service:

Payne
insists that the Hebrew of 1 Chronicles 25:1 unambiguously
identifies these leaders as militarycommanders,
an interpretation favoured by several Bible translations. (Payne, p
423-4; NASB, NIV, NKJV, NRSV, Jerusalem Bible) If military commanders
had a particular interest in the appointment of musicians, it suggests
a strong link between music and warfare.

H5647
‛âbad aw-bad' A primitive root; to work (in any sense); by
implication
to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, be,
keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel

1
Chron 25:2 Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and
Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sons of Asaph under the hands of Asaph,
which prophesied according to the order of the king.

H623 ’âsâph
aw-sawf' From H622 ; collector; Asaph, the name of
three Israelites, and of the family of the first:---Asaph.
H622 ’âsaph aw-saf' A primitive root; to
gather for any purpose; hence to receive,
takeaway,
that is, remove (destroy,
leave behind, put up, restore, etc.):--assemble, bring, consume,
destroy, fetch, gather
(in, together, up again), surely, take (away, into,
up), X utterly, withdraw.
"The Hithpa'el of nb', in the ancient texts,
refers to ecstasy and delirium
rather than to the emission
of a 'prophecy'." (de
Vaux, Roland, The Bible and the Ancient Near
East, p. 243 Doubleday

"Maniac
inspirations, the violent possession which threw sibyls and priestesses into contortions--the foaming lip and streaming hair and glazed
or glaring eyes-- have no
place in the self-controlling dignity
of Christian inspiration. Even Jewish prophets, in the paroxysm of
emotion, might lie naked on the ground and rave (1 Sam. xix. 24); but
the genuine inspiration in Christian ages never obliterates the
self-consciousness or overpowers the reason. It abhors the hysteria and stimulation
and frenzy
which have sometimes disgraced
revivalism and filled lunatic asylums." (Pulpit Commentary, 1
Cor., p. 460).

David's
Praise word in the
instrumental Psalms is Halal from which we get the word for LUCIFER
which speaks of a light and sound show to steal people's
prophecy. Hillel,
Judges 12:13. Sophocles,
Antigone

Chorus
[791] You seize the minds of just men and drag them to injustice, to
their ruin. You it is who have incited this conflict of men whose flesh
and blood are one. [795] But victory [Nike] belongs to radiant Desire swelling
from the eyes of the sweet-bedded bride. Desire sits enthroned in power
beside the mighty laws. [800] For in all this divine Aphroditeplays
her irresistible game.

Commentary [800]empaizei, 'wreaks her will' in that contest which nikai implies. We
find empaizô with a dat. (1) of the object, as Her. 4.134
empaizontas
hêmin, 'mocking us': (2) of the sphere, as Ar. Th. 975 choroisin empaizei,
'sports in dances.' The en of empaizei
here might also be explained as (a) in the imeros, or the blephara,
i.e. by their agency: or (b) 'on her victim.' But
the interpretation first given appears simpler. (Cp. Vergil's absol.
use of illudere, G. 1. 181, Tum
variae illudant pestes.)

1. to touch
sharply, to pluck, pull, twitch,
Aesch.; toxou
neuran ps. to twang the bow-string, Eur.; belos ekkeraos
ps. to send a shaft
twanging from the bow,
schoinos
miltophurês
psallomenêI phurôI. metaph. to mingle
together so as
to
soil or defile,
confuse, to be doomed to
have one's hair defiled
with earth,
thêriôdous from a confused
and savage

Sophocles,
Antigone
Teiresias
There, now, are arrows
for your heart, since you
provoke me,
[1085] launched
at you, archer-like, in
my anger. They fly true--you
cannot run from their burning
sting.
Boy, lead me home, so that he may launch his rage against youngermen, and learn to keep a quieter tongue [1090]
and a better mind within his breast than he now bears

Lynn
Anderson etal:Psalms
- more quoted in the NT than any other OT book. In Luke 24:44
and John 10:34, Jesus confirms the prophecy of Psalms, saying, “the
scripture cannot be broken.”Some have sought to discredit instrumental
music in the Old Testament as merely a Davidicinvention.
Instruments were used both before and after David, however.
David
clearly had the Lord’s blessing. He is referred to 59 times
in the N.T.

But, one
should understand that the instrumental psalms and warriorchants
intended to drive the enemy into panic with taunt
singing: that is what
is happening with the singing and clapping to show defeat of the old
"grey hairs." Because these taunt songs carried sexual warnings to
anyone the captured, it comes as no surprise says Delitsch on the
Psalms:

Moreover,
we must take into consideration
the facts that the compass of
the tenor extends even into the soprano,
that the singers were of
different ages down to
twenty years of age, and that Oriental, and more
particularly even Jewish, song is fond of falsetto singing.

Again: Payne
insists that the Hebrew of 1 Chronicles
25:1 unambiguously identifies these leaders as militarycommanders,
an interpretation favoured by
several Bible translations. (Payne, p 423-4; NASB, NIV, NKJV, NRSV,
Jerusalem Bible) If military commanders had a particular interest in
the appointment of musicians, it suggests a strong link between music
and warfare.

David
sang boast songs against HIS own personal enemies so you have to take
these as allegorical or implicate David as a conformed effeminate as
may be claimed in Scripture:

TympanotribaI. a
taborer, a
timbrel-player, a term of reproach for a soft, effeminateperson
(alluding to the priests of Cybele),

T. Maccius Plautus, Truculentus, or The
ChurlSTRATOPHANES
Say you so,
indeed? I'll first make trial of that. Do you, for the sake of such a
shabby present, vegetables, and comestibles, and vinegar-water,
bestow your love upon an effeminate, frizzle-pated, dark-haunt
frequenting, drum-drubbing
debauchee

6
Is he deranged:
"Hariolus." Literally, "a soothsayer," or
"diviner." In their
prophetic frenzy, these persons often had the appearance of
being mad, and were so considered. 7
Drum-drubbing
debauchee: "Typanotriba."
Literally, "drum," or
"tambourine beater." He alludes to the eunuch-priests of Cybele,
who used to beat tambourines in her procession-probably in allusion
to debauchees, emasculated by riot
and dissipation

After
all, what do you think the CODE TERM "New Wineskins Worship" means?

Because
the Sabazianism to which God abandoned the Israelites BECAUSE of
musical idolatry we should look to Dionysus as the PATTERNISM and
PURPOSE of discording the church:

"dionysus's
worship is thus
established by the simple means of killing the opposition. It has been suggested
that every tragic
hero
who suffers and
dies on stage
at the Dionysia, the great
dramatic festival
at Athens (of
the South?),is in fact
dionysus
himself, being killed."

In
the Eleusian mysteries, the
wine was not noted for its alcohol but for drugs perhaps from
fermented barley or frommushroomsused to bring on the exhilaration. Of the priest, it is
said that:

"As he performed
the service, heintoned ancient chants in a falsetto
voice, for his
role in the Mystery was asexual, a male
who had sacrificed
his gender to the Great Goddess. Resource

Because
God gave David a Jubusite High Place rather than let the people be
slaughtered, before twisting all known scripture it might help to
understand that this was a QUARANTINE to keep the people away from the
fall from grace:

"The tradition that associated music and psalmody
with the Davidic age generally has been verified by
archaeological discoveries, which show decisively that for centuries
previously the people of Palestine had been
renowned for their
musical interests. Palestinian nomads on a visit to Egypt were
depicted in the Beni Hasan tableau as walking behind their animals to
the accompaniment of music. Other Egyptian sources from 1550 B.C.
refer to examples of Canaanitemusic,
while Ugaritic texts are
replete with religious poetry, some of it being
distinctly parallel
in phraseology to the Hebrew Psalter.
From the same sources come
references to a class of temple personnel known as 'sarim,'
who closely
resembled the Hebrewsingers of
the monarchy and later periods."
(Harrison, R. K., Introduction to the Old Testament, Eerdmans, p.
411).

By
taking over and adapting
Jerusalem's
ancient cult, David provided Israel
with a new worship,
one
that featured his own status and its sacral significance.Britannica

"The
book of Psalms contain
new doctrine
after the Law of Moses.
And after the writing of Moses, it is the second book of
doctrine... (David) first
gave to the Hebrews a
new style of psalmody, bu which he abrogates the ordinances
established by
Moses
with respect to
sacrifices, and introduces the new hymn
and a new style of jubilant
praise in the worship of
God;
and throughout his whole
ministry he teaches very many other things that went beyond the law
of Moses." (Fragment of Commentary by Hippolytus, bishop
of Rome,
Ante-Nicene, V, p. 170)

Jehoram
was the son
of Ahab and Jezebel. He had grown up with
the hundreds of
"prophets of Asherah
and
of Baal." Their
practice had been to play
music, sing, dance
by bending the knee and
even wounding themselves.

However,
their
effort was not a sign of spirituality but was a method by which God
brought them to destruction even as Elijah
accomplished God's will by
quiet words.

Jehoram wanted Elisha to help him
restore the LAW OF GIVING unlawfully.
Elisha reluctantly performed his prophecy and caused all of the tithers
to DESTROY their "means of giving."
There must be a moral here?

Most
of those who call in a HARPIST PROPHESIER (not a writing prophet) the
effect in every instance is to DRIVE OUT those who had suppled the
unlawful tithes and offerings..

Lynn
Anderson etal:
II Chron. 5:13,14 “The
trumpeters
and singers joined in unison, as with one voice, to give praise and
thanks to the LORD. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other
instruments, they raised their voices in praise to the LORD and
sang:
"He is good; his
love endures forever."Then
the temple of the LORD was filled with
a cloud, and the priests
could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of
the LORD filled the temple of God.”

Stephen
told the truth and God murdered for REPUDIATING that which this
apologist for music is trying to restore as ceremonial legalism.

God promised David a Tent

But, Solomon built God a
HOUSE

But, God does not live in
houses built by
human hands: especially by Hiram the Architect who built Jerusalem's
about like that at Tyre for "the singing and harp playing prostitute.

When the Ark was placed into the Most
Holy place
there went the easy access to the symbolic presence of God, to His Word
once in the ark and Grace UNDER the mercy Seat.

With the loud NOISE playing 120 ram's horns all tuned to ONE NOTE
blasted out, God SHUT DOWN the Temple and SEALED His presence FROM the
common people. Not to worry, the people who had been put
OUTSITE
the gates prayed directly to God and God answered from HEAVEN. So,
guess God was not in the house after all.

ADDED: He will take the girls for his court and the young boys from the
farms including performing musical glorification of the king and making
war to shed blood.

1Sam. 8:12 And he
will appoint him captains over thousands,
and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his
ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war,
and instruments of his chariots.

Anapaistoshammered, forged, rebounding,Pindar,
Olympian 4.[1]Charioteer
of the
thundercloud with
untiring feet, highest Zeus!
Your Seasons, whirling to the embroidered notes of the lyre's
song,
sent me as a witness of the most lofty games. When friends are
successful, the noble immediately smile on[5] the
sweet announcement. Son of Cronus,

This
worship may originally
have come
fromBabylonia,
but the
reverence of the sun under the name Baal-hamman had long been common in
Palestine before Joshua and the Israelites
entered the country. These
sun-images were probably obelisks or pillars connected with the
worship of some local Baal. The chariot and horses of
the sun, mentioned
(2
Kings 23:11) as having an honored place at the western entrance of
the JerusalemTemple,
represented not a local but a foreign cult. In Babylonian
temples, sacrifices were made to the sun-chariot,
which
seems to have had a special significance in time of war (Pinches,
HDB, IV, 629; see also CHARIOTS OF THE SUN).

Here
is Apollo's Sun Chariot

Lynn Anderson
etal: 2
Chr 20:28 They entered Jerusalem
and went to the temple of the Lord with harps and lutes
and trumpets.And
when he
had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the Lord,
and that should praise the beauty of holiness,

This is how the writer proposes to SET
AMBUSH against the people of God?

as they went out before the army,
and to say, Praise the Lord; for his mercy endureth for ever. 2
Chronicles
20:21

Nagan (h5059) naw-gan'; a prim. root; prop.
to
thrum, i. e. beat a tune with the fingers; espec. to play on a stringed
instrument; hence (gen.) to make music: - player on instruments, sing
to the
stringed instruments, melody, ministrel, play (-er, -ing..

For
the
children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount
Seir,
utterly to slay and destroy them:

and
when they had made an end of the
inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another. 2 Chronicles
20:23

And
when
Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked
unto the multitude,
and,

behold,
they were dead bodies fallen to the
earth, and none escaped. 2 Chronicles 20:24

And
when Jehoshaphat
and his people came to take away the spoil of them,
they found among
them in abundance both riches
with the deadbodies, and preciousjewels,
which
they stripped off for themselves, more
than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of
the spoil,
it was so much. 2 Chronicles 20:25

Lynn
Anderson etal:II
Chron. 29:25ff When Hezekiah restored the temple
worship, he
reinstated instruments: “And he stationed the Levites in the
house of
the Lord with cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to the commandment
of David and of Gad the kingís seer and of Nathan the prophet;
for the
commandment was from the Lord through his prophets.”

The Levites were in the courts and could not
go into a covered house even to clean out the garbage.
David
never commanded instruments for his plague stopping ceremony but it is
clear that ALL musical instruments were by the command of David THROUGH
Gad the Stargazer.

c. 1048 B.C. The
precedent:David made a deal with
God to stop the plagues which
he (David) had caused. God gave David a Jebusite
High Place to
construct an alternative altar because he
never
lost the fear of God and could not go to Gibeon again. When he built
the temple, Solomon did not consult God at Jerusalem but returned to
Gibeon.

We Repeat:

"The
ancient Tabernacle
was now
divided; the ark
was
brought into Zion, whereas the brazen altar at least, and probably
the vessels of the holy place (ex. 25:23-40; 37:10-28; 40:22-27),
were established in the high place at Gibeon.

Asaph
and the singers
(1 Chron. 6:31-47; 15:16-19; 16:5; 25:6) were left before the ark, while the
priests
ministered in Gibeon before the Tabernacle
(16:39)." (Schofield
Bible, p. 478-479).

"The
original
altar
of Burnt-offering
continued at Gibeon
with the Tabernacle (2 Chr. 1:3, 5). David must have erected a new
altar for sacrifice at Jerusalem.

>
The
sacrifices commanded
by the
Law were, it
appears, offered at the former place (Gibeon);> at the latter
were offered voluntary
additional sacrifices."
(Albert Barnes, 1 Chron, p.
347).

How can that be disputed
if God turned them
over to worship the starry host and God gave the kings in His anger and
took them away in His anger?

c. 728 B.C. Hezekiah's
use: The
Jerusalem temple
was so polluted that not even animal sacrifices could be made there.
The priests had set up alternative altars outside of the
city. A plague was
on
the nation, the city and the temple. To collect the people inside of
the walls, Hezekiah made a deal with God to purify the temple so that
the priests and therefore the people would be more collected inside
of Jerusalem and able to withstand a certain attack. The
"congregation" was never the common people but the king, commanders
of the army, city officials and clergy participated in these
rituals.

This does not
establish PATTERNISM for Christian worship which is wholly in the new
PLACE of the human spirit.

The Temple Was the
Capital of Israel: Bank, etc
The Temple Was Not for People's Worship
Animal Sacrifices at the Temple were Identical to All National
Capitol Buildings
The Jerusalem was "Capitol Hill" and Not "Church."

Lynn
Anderson etal:II
Chron. 30:21 “The Israelites who were present in Jerusalem
celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great
rejoicing, while the Levites and priests sang to the LORD every day,
accompanied by the Lord's instruments of praise. Hezekiah
spoke
encouragingly to all the Levites, who showed good understanding of the
service of the LORD. For the seven days they ate their assigned portion
and offered fellowship offerings and praised the LORD, the God of their
fathers.”

This was not congregational worship but more like a Camp
Meeting. While the Levites and priests sang and played loud instruments
at times, the purpose was for education.

Here is what the
priests and levites who never TAUGHT
KNOWLEDGE were doing only once a year but had not been holding this
community festival.

2 Chr 30:21 And the
children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast
of unleavened bread seven days with great
gladness:
and the Levites
and the priests praised the LORD day by
day, singing
with loudinstruments
unto the LORD.

But, here is what
Hezekiah--always fighting a losing battle--was doing TO the Levites who
might have been teaching.

2 Chr 30:22 And Hezekiah spakecomfortably
unto all the Levites
that taught the
good knowledge of the LORD: and they did
eat throughout the feast seven
days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God
of their fathers.

Christ has become OUR
Passover so guess we won't be holding a musical festival and if we do,
we will do it OUT IN THE OPEN,.

Lynn
Anderson etal:Neh
12:27 “At the dedication of the wall
of Jerusalem, the Levites
were sought out from where they lived and were brought to Jerusalem to
celebrate joyfully the dedication with songs of
thanksgiving and with
the music of cymbals, harps and lyres.”

Hezekiah also defined WHY they had been taken captive and their temple
destroyed and walls broken down:

So
the children
went in and possessed
the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants
of the land,
the
Canaanites, and gavest them into their
hands, with their kings, and
the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would.
Neh 9:24

And
they took strong
cities, and
a fat
land,
and
possessed houses
full of all goods, wells
digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in
abundance:

so
they did eat, and were
filled, and
became fat, and delighted

Nevertheless
they were disobedient,
and rebelled
against thee,
and
cast thy law behind their backs,
and slew thy
prophets which testifiedagainst
them to turn
them to
thee,
and they wrought
great
provocations. Neh 9:26

For
they have not served
thee in their
kingdom,
and in thy great
goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which
thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
Neh 9:35

Behold, we
are servants
this day,[and so are you]
and for
the land that thou gavest
unto our fathers to eat
the fruit thereof and the good
thereof,
behold, we are servants
in it: Neh
9:36

And
it yieldeth
much increase
unto the kings whom thou hast set
over usbecause of our sins:also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle,
at their pleasure,
and we are in greatdistress. Neh 9:37

They
have sown
wheat, but shall reap thorns:
they have put
themselves to
pain, but
shall not profit:
and they shall be ashamed
of your revenues
because of the fierce anger of the Lord.
Je.12:13

Hezekiah refers all the way back to
David to understand how to dedicate
or purify a temple: this leaves no doubt about who commanded what:

And
certain of the priests sons with trumpets;
namely,
Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah,
the son
of Mattaniah, the son of Michaiah, the son of Zaccur,
the son of
Asaph: Nehemiah 12: 35
And his
brethren,
Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai,
Nethaneel, and Judah,
Hanani,
with the musicalinstruments of
David the man of God, and Ezra
the scribe
before them. Nehemiah 12: 36

So stood the two
companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and
I,
and the half of the rulers with
me: Nehemiah 12: 40

The
Levites: And
Maaseiah, and Shemaiah,
and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and
Ezer. And the singers sang
loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.
Nehemiah 12: 42

1037 BC - Solomon
succeeds King
David.

520 BC - work on
the temple walls
begins.

Notice that
Nehemiah reaches back
to David to explain what has just taken place:

And both the singers and
the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification,
according to the commandment
of David, and of
Solomon his son.
Nehemiah 12: 45

For in the days
of David
and Asaph
of old there were chief
of the singers,
and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto
God. Nehemiah
12:
46

And all Israel in the
days of
Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the
singers and the porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified
holy things unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified them unto
the childrenof
Aaron. Nehemiah
12: 47

"The
solemn ritual described in
Neh. 8-10 is one of the most important moments in the history of
Israel: this is as it were the official birth of Judaism. The
gathering does
not
take place in the Temple, but in the public square. It
does not consist of bloody sacrifices, but of reading the law and prayer. "
(Charpentier, How To
Read the Bible, p. 75)

Of course, as a result of
this loud rejoicing or boasting, they
attracted the attention of the enemy and the rebuilding was stopped for
about 16 years.

[The
Rule of the
Trumpets: the trumpets]
of alarm for all their
service for the [ . . . ]
for their commissioned men, 17[by tens of thousands and thousands and
hundreds and fifties] and
tens. Upon
the
t[rumpets . . . ]

[
. . . ] )8[ . . . ]
19[ . . . which ] 20 [,, . they shall write . . . the trumpets of
Col. 3 the battle
formations, and the trumpets for assembling them when the gates of the war are opened
so that
the infantry might advance, the trumpets
for the signal of the slain, the trumpets of 2 the ambush, the trumpets of pursuit
when the enemy is defeated, and the trumpets of reassembly when the battle
returns.

On
the trumpets for
the assembly of the congregation they shall write, "The
called of God." 3 0n the
trumpets for the assembly of the chiefs they shall write, "The
princes of God." On the trumpets of the formations
they shall write, "The
rule of God." On the trumpets of the men of renown [they shall write],
"The heads
of the congregation's
clans."

Then
when they are
assembled at the house of meeting, they shall write, "The testimonies
of God for a holy congregation." On the trumpets of the
camps
5 they shall write, "The
peace of God in the camps of His saints."

On
the trumpets
for
their campaigns
they shall write,

"The
mighty deeds of God to scatter
the enemy and to put all
those
who hate justice
to flight and a withdrawal
of mercy from all who hate
God."

On
the trumpets
of
the battle
formations they shall write, "Formations of the divisions of God to avenge His anger on all Sons
of Darkness."

7
0n the trumpets
for assembling
the infantry when the gates of war open that they might go out
against the battle line of the enemy, they shall write, "A
remembrance of requital at the appointed time 8
0f God."
On the trumpets of the slain
they shall write, "The
hand of the might of God in
battle so as to bring
down all the slain
because of unfaithfulness."
On the trumpets
of ambush
they shall
write,
9 "Mysteries of God to wipe out wickedness."
On the trumpets of pursuit they shall
write,"God has struck all Sons
of Darkness, He shall not abate
His anger until they are
annihilated." When
they return from battle to
enter the formation, they shall
write on the trumpets
of retreat, "God has gathered."
On the trumpets
for
the way of return from
battle with
the enemy to enter the congregation in Jerusalem, they shall
write,"Rejoicings
of God in a peaceful
return."

The
Lord of hosts
shall defend them;
and they
shall devour, and subdue with sling
stones;
and they
shall
drink, and
make a noise as through wine;
and they
shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of
the
altar. Zech 9:15

Isaiah 30 proves that HELLwas
prepared for the enemies of God (liars, dogs, sorcerers). The MARK of
SOUND of God driving them into hell will be wind, string and percussion
instruments.

And the Lord their
God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they
shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his
land. Zech 9:16

For how great is his
goodness, and how great is his beauty corn shall make the young men
cheerful, and newwine the maids. Zech 9:17

When
the battle line
are arrayed against the enemy
battle line against battle line
there shall go forth from the middle opening into the gapbetween the
battle lines seven priests
of the sons of Aaron,
dressed in fine white linen garments: a linen
tunic
and linen breeches, and girded with a linen sash of twined fine
linen, violet, '"purple, and crimson, and a varicolored Sign, the
work of a skillful workman, and decorated caps on their heads; the
garments for battle, and they shall not take them into the sanctuary.

The
one priest shall
walk before all the men of the battle line to encourage them for
battle.

In
the
hands of the remaining six shall be the trumpets of assembly' the trumpets of memorial, the trumpets of the
alarm,
the trumpets of pursuit, and the trumpets of reassembly.

When
the priests
go out
into the gap between the battle lines,

seven
Levites shall go out with them. In their hands shall be seven trumpets
of rams' horns. Three officers from among the Levites shall walk before
the priests and the Levites.

The
priests shall
blow the two
trumpets of assembly . .
. of ba]ttle upon fifty shields, and fifty
infantrymen shall go out from the one gate and [ . . . ] Levites,
officers. With each battle line they shall go out according to all
[this] o[rder.... men of the] infantry from the gates [and they shall
take positi]on between the two battle lines, and [ . . . ] the battle
] [,, . ] the trumpets shall blow
continually
to direct the slingmen until they have
completed hurling seven times.

Lynn
Anderson etal:Hab
3:19 “The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet
like
the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights. For
the
director of music. On my stringed instruments.

For the director of
music. On my stringedinstruments.
This defines how this message is to be presented and does not command
instrumental music.

But
they also have erred
through
wine,
and through
strong drink are out of
the way; the priest and the prophet
have erred
through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the
way
through strong
drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. Is.28:7

WINE is a
mocker,
strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived
thereby is not wise.
Pr.20:1

Lynn
Anderson etal:Garrett,
Leroy.
Restoration Review. January, 1991. “The argument we
have always made that instruments were authorized
in the Old Testament but not the New hardly applies
to the Psalms,
for it is not a matter of the instruments being ‘authorized’ or
legislated. They were used out of the spontaneous devotion of
the
people. They praised God in every way available to them,
which would
of course include instruments of music.
We need to
question a hermeneutics that keeps saying, ‘But that’s in the Old
Testament.’ We should at least be able to understand how our
Christian
friends who choose to use instruments consider it odd that we elect to
make use of all the spiritual values in the Psalms except “Praise Him
with stringed instruments” (Ps. 150:4).”

The word PSALM in the Hebrew Paul would know is not the BOOK of Psalms:
it includes about 50 which were not devoted and none of these INCLUDE a
musical instrument.

Only 57 of the Book of Psalms are psalms or mizmors.
The Greek words were used because they have a
universal perverted
meaning unless they are used for LEARNING ONLY. We don't ACTUALLY bash
infants heads. The word "psalmos" is a song: you have to define an
instrument IF one is included.

However, because the Septuaging was a Greek translation and they would
know that the PSALLO type words spoke of making war or making love in a
perverted sense, the false teachers ignoring all of history intend to
lead you into something evil.

Psalmos also appears in
the LXX as equivalent to the Hebrew
word neginah. This Hebrew term is used to describe
a wide variety of
songs. Neginah is translated by psalmos in Lam 3:14
(song), in Lam 5:14
(music) and in Ps 69:12 (song). It is striking to observe that in the
LXX translation of Lam 3:14 and Ps 69:12, psalmos, or its verbal
form,
is used for songs that are not only uninspired
but are in fact the product of the wicked, even
drunkards, who mocked God and His word. The
Hebrew term neginah is used elsewhere in the Hebrew Scriptures of: the
songs of the wicked, Job 30:9 (song); the inspired praise of God, Psalm
61 title (Neginah-a song performed on a stringed instrument); and the
uninspired praise of the Lord composed by King Hezekiah, Is 38:20 (my
songs).

Nagan
(h5059) naw-gan'; a prim. root; prop. to thrum, i. e. beat a
tune
with the fingers; espec. to PLAY on a stringed instrument;
hence
(gen.) to make music: - player on instruments, sing to the stringed
instruments, melody, ministrel, play (-er, -ing.

LudoA.To
sport, play with any thing, to practise as a
pastime, amuse one's self with any thing: Especially
to play
on an
instrument of music,to make or compose
music or song:B.To sport, dally, wanton
(cf. "amorous play,")C. Ludere aliquem or aliquid,
to play, mock,
imitate, mimica
person or thing (only in mockery;
cf.: partes agere, etc.):
civem bonum ludit,
Cael. ap. Cic.
Fam. 8, 9, 1; cf.: ludereopus,
to imitate work, make believe work E.To spend in
play or amusement, to sport away: otium,
Mart. 3, 67, 9 .--Hence, ludere operam, to throw away one's
labor, to labor in vain,F.To make sport or game
of a person, to ridicule, rally, banter:G.To delude, deceive:Insania

The history of the Greek language
extends back
about fifteen centuries before Christ. The era called the "classical"
period was from around 900 B.C. (the time of Homer) to the conquests
of Alexander the Great (c. 330 B.C.).
During this time psallo carried
the
basic sense of "to touch
sharply, to move
by touching, to pull,
twitch" (Liddell, p. 1841).

Luke
7:24 And when the messengers of John were
departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What
went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reedshaken
with the
wind?Luke
7:25 But what went ye out for to see? A
man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are
gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately,
are in kingscourts.

Don-eô, A. shake, of the
effects of the wind,they shake
the young tree, having driven them, to de te pnoiai
doneousin they shake the young tree, kardian
to agitate one's mind,hêmas
edonêsen hê mousikê, , donountai to neurôdes have
twitchings inthe tendons,

Pindar Pythian 10.[31] Once
Perseus,
the leader of his people, entered their homes and feasted among them,
when he found them sacrificing glorious hecatombs of donkeys to the
god. In the festivities of those people[35] and
in their praises Apollo rejoices most, and he
laughs when
he sees the erect arrogance of the beasts.
[37] The
Muse
is not absent from their customs; all
around swirl the dances of
girls, the lyre's loud chords
and the cries of flutes.[40] They
wreathe their hair with golden laurelbranches
and revel joyfully. No
sickness or ruinous old age is mixed into that sacred race; without
toil or battles [43] they
live without fear of strict Nemesis.

The choicest hymn of praise flits from theme to theme, like a bee. [55][55] And
I hope that, while the Ephyreans pour forth my sweet voice beside the
Peneius,
with my songs I will make Hippocleas even more admired for his garlands
by boys his age and by his elders, and I will make the girls think of
him. For[60] people«s
minds are tickled by various desires; [61] but
whatever each man strives for, let him hold on to it eagerly if he gets
it, the concern that is close at hand. It is impossible to foresee what
will happen a year from now.

Lynn
Anderson etal:In
fact, to what is Paul referring when he speaks of “all scripture”?
Is he referring to his own letters, which he is in the middle of
writing? Is he referring to the gospels, which may not have
even been
written yet? Well - the argument goes - but we are following
the NT
church. Shouldn’t we rather be following Jesus,
(who, by the way, was
known to worship at the temple
where instruments were used.)

The ONLY role
of the ekklesia or synagogue is teaching
the Word: you do not teach by making music but indeed stop the learning
process. Paul commanded that we READ or SPEAK the Psalms and speak is
the "opposite to poerty or music." No one missed that until the year
373. Once you start the slippery slope there is no stopping. The Psalms
are not metrical and you cannot make music with them without rewriting
them:

2 T
im. 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is
profitable for doctrine, for reproof,
forcorrection,
for instruction in righteousness:

Acts 13:15 And after the reading of the law
and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent
unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word
of exhortation for the people, say on.

Thus ends the synagogue other than
prayers.

Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time hath in every city
them that
preach him,
being read
in the synagogues every sabbath day.

2Cor. 3:14 But their minds were blinded:
for until
this day remaineth the same vail untaken away
in the reading
of the oldtestament;
which
vail is done away in Christ.
The most memorable events OUTSIDE but never IN the
temple was "casting
out the musical minstrels" more or less violently like Dung.
And
he cast out the Collection Plates and the collectors. He
consigned the pipers, singers and dancers to the marketplace with all
the other polluted musicians. Because the TOOK the Widows mites Jesus
promised that the temple would be dismantled stone by stone.

There is no proof that Jesus ever attended OUTSIDE the gates during any
sacrificial music.

Lynn
Anderson etal:
B.
New
Testament

Luke
7:32 They are like children
sitting in the marketplace and
calling out to each other: "'We played the flute
for you, and you did
not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not cry.'

Yes, they
hoped that John wore the soft clothing of the Catamite and that Jesus
would sing or lament and dance when they piped. This was a clear mark
of the perverted initiation into the cult of Dionysus or the god of the
new wineskin. This was sodomy as part of the old Abomination
of Desolation defined
in Second Maccabees.

Luke
7:24 And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak
unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness
for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

"Yobal (Jubal). (Note: Jubilee or "a blast of
trumpets" is from Jubal which means "to lead with triumph or pomp.") and Tobalkin
(Tubal-Cain), the two
brethren, the sons of Lamech, the blind man, who killed Cain, invented
and made all kinds of instruments (or metal weapons) of music.

and the devils went
and dwelt inside them.When
men blew into the pipes, the
devils sang inside them,

And Satan
had been made ruler (or prince) of that camp

And
when the men and women were stirred up to lascivious frenzy by the devilish
playing of the reeds
which emitted musical sounds, and by the harps
which the men played
through the operation of the power of the devils, and by the sounds of
the tambourinesand of the sistra
which were beaten and rattledthrough
the agency of evil spirits,
the sounds
of their
laughter were heard in the air above them, and ascended
to that holy mountain.

Luke
7:25 But what went ye out for to see? A
man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are
gorgeously
apparelled, and livedelicately,
are in kings courts.

1 Cor 6:[9]WEB Or don't you know that
the unrighteous will not
inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually
immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes,
nor homosexuals, [10] nor thieves, nor covetous,
nor drunkards, nor
slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the
Kingdom of God. [11]
Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified.
But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the
Spirit of our God.

Luke 7:26 But
what went ye out for to see? A
prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.

They
are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to
another, and saying, We have piped
unto
you, and ye have
not danced;
we have mourned
to you, and ye
have not
wept.
Luke 7:32

Jesus consignes the
pipers, singers and
dancers to the market-place where all of the singing, dancing, music
and pagan ceremonies took place. The Jews HOPED that Dionysus was their
messiah because that is the worship God abandoned them to BECAUSE of
musical idolatry.

The singing or lamenting
was the natural
result of the "initiation" which was the same as bowing to Baal.
Initiation into homosexuality was the goal:

Aulêtikos, kalamos
used for making flutes, (sc. technê), hê, flute-playing,. Adv.-kôs, dei
karkinoun [spread like cancer]Spond-aulês , ou, ho, playing
the flute at a SPONDE
(Ephesus)
and (Rhegium).Spondê [spendô]I. a drink-offering,
i. e. the wine poured
out to the gods before drinking,
Lat. libatio,

Pl.Euthd. 277d. Plato, Euthydemus, Socrates: Euthydemus was
proceeding topress
the
youth
for the thirdfall,when I, [277d] perceiving the lad was going under, and wishing to give
him some breathing-space lest
he should shame us by losing heart, encouraged him with these words:
Cleinias, do not be surprised that these arguments seem strange to
you; for perhaps you do not discern what our two visitors are doing
to you.

They
are acting just like the celebrants of the Corybantic
rites, when they perform
the
enthronement of the
person whom they are about
to
initiate. There, as you
know, if you have been
through it, they
have
dancing and merrymaking: so
here these two [277e]
are merely dancing about you
and performing
their
sportive gambols with a
view to your subsequent initiation ..... Such things are
the sport of the sciences--and
that is why I tell you these men are making game of you; I call it sport

This
is THE meaning of
Rock and Roll! They hoped that Jesus would dance and lament (ouch) the
Dionysus initiation which means BOWING before Baal.

Lynn
Anderson etal:1 Cor 14:7 Even in the case of lifeless
things that make sounds, such
as the flute or harp, how will anyone know what tune is being played
unless there is a distinction in the notes?

1 Cor 14:8 Again, if the trumpet does not sound a clear call,
who will get ready for battle?

In
1 Corinthians 13 Paul equated speaking in tongues to the "worship of
angels" which was witchcraft, to the sounds of war
and to the sounds in
the theater where echo chambers acted like pipe
organs to amplify the
voice. Lifeless instruments are carnalweapons
and this is Paul
radically condemning them as ANTI-Christian. By being
informed
about the literature which Paul and school kids knew, false teachers
are charging to do brain surgery after discovering that HE has a brain.

Plutarch
Corbut that a
body
which hath neither life
nor soul should have
any direct
or
exquisite words formed
in it by express
voice,
that is
altogether unpossible . For the soul nor God himself can distinctly
speak without a body, having necessary organs and instruments
meet
for the parts of the same, to form and utter distinct words. But
where stories many times do force us to believe a thing reported to
be true, by many grave testimonies: there we must say, that it is
some passion contrary to
our five natural senses,
which being begotten in the imaginative part
or
understanding draweth an opinion unto itself, even as we do in our
sleeping.

Heredotus 7.CLXVII. The story told
by the Carchedonians
themselves seems to have some element of truth. They say that the barbarians
fought with the Greeks in Sicily from dawn until late
evening (so long, it is said, the battle was drawn out), during which
time Amilcas stayed in his camp offering sacrifice and striving to
obtain favorableomensby
burningwhole bodies on a great pyre.

When
he saw his army routed, he cast himself
into the fire where he was pouring libations on the
sacrifice; he was
consumed by this and was not seen any more. [2] Whether he vanished
as the Phoenicians say, or in the manner related by the Carchedonians
and Syracusans, sacrifice is offered to him, and monuments have been
set up in all the colonists' cities, the greatest of which is in
Carchedon itself

II. spiritless,
faint-hearted,
III. materialistic, logos

HOPLON
Euripides-Ion

O
thou, that wakest on thy seven-string'd
lyre

Sweet
notes, that from the rustic lifeless
horn

Enchant the ear with heavenly melody,

Son
of Latona, thee before this light

Will
I reprove. Thou camest to me, with gold

Thy
locks all
glittering, as the vermeil
flowers

Because
they were addicted to the astrial gods it comes as no surprise that
even David wanted to WAKE UP his lyre UNLESS he was speaking in
figurative language.

Woe
unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb
stone, Arise, it shall teach Behold, it is laid over with gold and
silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. Hab 2:19

But
the Lord is in his holy temple: let
all the earth keep silence before him. Hab 2:20

And
now my son and thine, ill-fated babe,

Is
rent by ravenous vultures; thou, meanwhile,

Art
to thy lyre attuning strains of joy.

Lynn
Anderson etal:Eph.
5:19 and Col. 3:16 refer to “psalms, hymns, and spiritual
songs”.
Every source I checked ties instrumental music to the word
“psalm”.

No, that is a
bad lie: none of the psalms were metrical and none were ever sung
accompianed by an instrument. The method would be to SPEAK the text and
sound a string note before or after to focus on the WORD.

Col 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and
admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

16 Let the word
of Christ
[What about the songs
of Twila Paris: isn't her's just as good as Christs or that
which is written?]

dwell in you richly in all
wisdom;
[Why can't Twila dwell in the worship
leader? Isn't Twila as wise as Christ?]

teaching
and admonishing one another [Why
isn't it just as good to entertain and defend the audience?]
[Doesn't saying Lord, Lord 100 times
teach?]
[Why shouldn't a half dozen sing to
the rest of the audience?]
[How could you prove that one another really
means one another in this changed culture?]

in psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs,
[Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs are types of the Biblical
psalms.
Why should I be stuck
with old style Bible text in my enlightened culture?
If we all
psalmos with a harp, do we all have to put down
our harp when we sing an ode?
Since the "psallo-based" words spoke of war and pollution and
was
never used "to play an instrument"
But only PLUCK
with your fingers and NEVER with a plectrum,
would our
enlightened age let us change that
to mean
"pluck with a guitar pick?" Or, BLOW
on a flute or BEAT on a drum or CLANG
with brass?]

But according to Paul
time trained as a Jew, a psalm would
point to the mizmors There
are only 50 mizmors not
restricted and NONE of these name an instrument.
Now, shall
we PhDuhs define a Psalm
according to Paul time or do we use our modern Bible
which use psalm to name a WHOLE
BOOK and not true psalms?]

On the very large OTHER HAND
here are the psalms used by those who intend to do you harm?

Psalmos
also appears in the LXX as equivalent to the Hebrew
word neginah [5058]. This Hebrew term is used to
describe a wide variety of
songs. Neginah is translated by psalmos in Lam 3:14 (song), in Lam 5:14
(music) and in Ps 69:12 (song). It is striking to observe that in the
LXX translation of Lam 3:14 and Ps 69:12, psalmos, or its verbal form,
is used for songs that are not only uninspired but
are in fact the product of the wicked, even drunkards,
who mocked God and His word. The
Hebrew term neginah is used elsewhere in the Hebrew Scriptures of: the
songs of the wicked, Job 30:9 (song); the inspired
praise of God, Psalm
61 title (Neginah-a song performed on a stringed instrument); and the
uninspired praise of the Lord composed by King Hezekiah, Is 38:20 (my
songs).

Thayer gives many
definitions and uses of the word Psalmos. The first
is "to pluck off, to pull out the hair". Even at first glance we both
know that this is not the definition we need, but we must ask why is
the word defined in this way. This particular meaning of Psalmos is
attributed (by Thayer) to Aeschylus between the
years 525 and
426 B.C. This is obviously not the definition to what the Apostle Paul
wrote in the early first century

singing with grace
in your hearts to the Lord. [Why
isn't singing in your mouth better?
if melody in Eph 3:15 means
making melody on a harp,
then why doesn't withgrace
mean to play some kind of stringed
instrument?
Did Paul tell the Ephesians
they could make melody on a HARP (only)
and then limit
the Colossians to singing with graceIN their
heart?

There
is no instrument in
GRACE and there is no instrument is PSALLO because both define a
spiritual result IN the heart as a result of SPEAKING the inspired text.

The
command was to SPEAK with one mind and one mouth
"using that which is
written." The purpose was to teach so that a faithful believer would
attend assembly having memorized a whole psalm or other passage. Even
if the psalmists is lusting to bash heads of infants, the purpose is
not unlearned praise singing but to understand the underlying prose
history.

logik-os,
ê, on, ( [logos]
) the organs
of speech
A. of or for speaking or speech,
logikê, hê, speech, opposite to mousikê,

Again 57 of the texts are called psalms by
those
who translated into the GREEK. Because the universal understanding of
the Greek words you will discover that probably
most of them are warriorchants
used to intimidate the enemy. After all,
David was
one of the kings given to carry out the captiviity
and death sentence
and to WIN wars on their. David was NOT a worship minister nor did he
prescribe worship. The Levitical Warrior musicians were
directed
by the King and commanders of the army and NOT by the priests.

Psalms
are poems and tend to be poetic: you have to understand forms of
figurative language or be prepared to hav a "smashing in the heads of
some infants" ceremony next week.

The tabulation
of musical
passages "contains a
rather disproportionate number of metaphoricalsentences,
where music
or its instruments are not to be understood literally
but are used as
similies or rhetorical figures. The most celebrated of these poetical
passages is Paul's glorification of love in I Cor. 13."
(Interpreter's Dict of the Bible, Music, p. 466).

Jesus
said that truth had been hidden in parables or symbolic langauge from
the foundation of the world. Isaiah 48 specificially says that was to
TRAP those who made a living out of singing or predicting the future.

Paul commanded that they be used to SPEAK and therefore Teach and
Admonish because the ekklesia or synagogue never had a praise service
based on direct command and minimal common sense.

Psalms
– “Its name in Latin and English Bibles . . . comes from the Greek, Psalmo,
which means ‘twangings [of harpstrings]’,
and then, as a result, songs sung to the accompaniment of
harps. This
latter name originated in the LXX (cf. its NT authenticity, Luke 20:42)
and reflects the form of the book’s poetry. The same is true
of its
alternate title, Psalterion, meaning ‘psaltery,’ and then, a collection
of harp songs, from which comes the English term ‘Psalter.’”

Vine,
W.E. Expository Dictionary of
New Testament Words. Old Tappan, New Jersey, 1966.
Psalm –
“Psalmos--primarily denoted a striking or twitching
with the fingers
(on musical strings); then, a sacred song, sung to musical
accompaniment, a psalm. It is used (a) of the O.T. book of
Psalms,
Luke 20:42; 24:44; Acts 1:20; (b) of a particular psalm,

Hymns "was that part of the Hallel consisting of Psalms
113-118; where the verb itself is rendered 'to sing praises' or
'praise' Acts 16:25; Heb 2:12. The Psalms are called,
in general,
'hymns,' by Philo;
Josephus calls them 'songs
and hymns.'" Vine
on Humneo

Lynn
Anderson etal: Note:
The psalmos denoted that which had a musicalaccompaniment;
the ode was the generic term
for a song; hence
the accompanying adjective ‘spiritual.’”

This
does not DEFINE Psalmos but shows how it is used in the literature.
Anyone not willing to risk their souls would deliberately destroy the
peace and harmony for which Jesus died by looking up words in
distionaries or lexicons which define the numerous ways the word is CONNECTED
to music but never MEANS music.

Not true: A psalmos is a song
and says nothing about how it is presented.

Psalmoi
toxôndoes not mean "sing and play a harp"
WITH a bow. Psalmoi just means pluck or twang a bow.

Phoebus'lyre, that singswith you, [165]
would not protect you from my bow. Alter your wings'
course; go to the Delian lake; if you do not obey, you will steep
your lovely melody in blood. [170]
Ah, ah! what is this new bird that approaches; you will not place under
the cornice a straw-built nest for your children, will you? My
singing[psalmoi] bow will
keep you off. Will you not obey?

Pindar
Isthmian 1.2.[1] The men of old,
Thrasybulus,
who mounted the chariot of the Muses
with their golden headbands,
joining the glorious lyre, lightly shot forth their
honey-voiced songs
for young men, if one was handsome and had[5] the
sweetest ripeness that brings to mind Aphrodite [ZOE] on
her lovely throne. [6] For
in those days the Muse was not yet a lover of gain,
nor did she work for hire. And sweet gentle-voiced
odes did not go for sale, with silvered
faces, from honey-voicedTerpsichore.

Pindar,
Odes Isthmian Odes
Pi.I.5(4).47; My
swift tongue has many
arrows, to shout the praises of these heroes."And Sophia and Zoe
caught him up and gave
him [jehovah] charge
of the seventh heaven,
below the veil between
above and below. And he is
called 'God
of the
forces, Sabaoth', since he is up above
the forces of chaos, for
Sophia established him. Jehovah made himself a huge four-faced
chariot of
cherubim, and
infinitely many
angels to act as ministers, and also harps
and lyres.

"Between the more known, near
the Sumerians, the
goddess Ereshkigal; the goddess Inanna,
associated with the winged
lion,
or while subjugating the lion [of
the tribe of Judah],
having assumed on themself the wings; near
the Hittites, Hebat, spouse of Teshub, represented
like a matrona, up
on her sacred animal, the lion; the lunar
goddess Shaushka
(identified with Ishtar,
IIIth dynasty of Ur, accadic period, approximately 2350
BC)

"Erotic dance was a sacred ritual in ancient Egypt,
common in fertility rituals and sex magick.
The most famous was
the erotic dance of the
priestesses of Het
Heret
[whom the Greeks
called Hathor], but also common in
the temples of Bast, Aset
[Isis], and Nuit.

The
meaning of 'Eve' is disputed. Hawwah is explained in Genesis III. 20 as 'mother of all living'; but this may well be a
Hebraicized form of the
divine name Heba, hebat, Khebat
or Khiba. The goddess, wife of the Hittite
Storm-god, is shown riding
a lion in a
rock-sculpture at Hattrusas--which equates her with
Anath--and appears as a form
of ishtar
in
Hurrian texts.

PêktidônPêktisI. an ancient
harp
used by the
Lydians, Hdt., etc.II.
a sort of shepherd's pipe,
joined of several reeds, like Pan's
pipes
(surinx),
surinx
2.cat-call,
whistle, hiss, as in theatres, Id.Lg.700c;
cf. surizô11.2
surigmos:--the
last part of the nomos Puthikos
was called suringes,
prob. because it imitated the dyinghissesof
the serpent Pytho, Str.9.3.10.

NOMOS or
singing the LAWS of Apollo (Apollyon etal) is the ONLY
definition of LEGALISM. That is because you use machines for
doing HARD WORK or creating the shock and awe which is hallucinated as
"worship."

Psalmoistwitching or twanging
with the fingersKrekon Krekô
, A.
weave,

Now I
will disclose to you both the subject
and the name of the play which we are just now about to act, and for
the sake of which you are now seated in thismirthful place , "Alazon" is the name (86)

This
city is Ephesus; then,
the Captain, my master, who has gone
off hence to the Forum, a bragging, impudent, stinkingfellow,
brimful of lying and lasciviousness,
says that all the women are following him of their own accord. Wherever
he goes, he is the laughingstock
of all; and so, the Courtesans here--since they make
wry mouths at him, you may see the greater part of them with lips all
awry Alazon
is the name:

Alazôn, "the boaster," he
says, was the Greek name of the play. It is not known who was the Greek
author from whom Plautus took this play, which is one of his best.

Mk.5:38
And he cometh
to the house of the ruler of
the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them
that wept and wailed greatly.

FOURTH:
3. later,[This
ONLY defines how the word is used: not a definition]

a.
song
sung to the harp, [Psalmus
does not INCLUDE the harp unless NAMED]

A song
sung TO a harp means that you twang the string then seek to imitae that
sound: this identifies mose uses of an instrument which was imitated
but never to TEACH. Here is where the musical imposers have to go for
evidence for point a.

Is.
23:15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall
be
forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the
end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.

Here
is how a harlot sings:

Is.
23:16 Take an [1] harp,
go about
the city, thou harlot that hast beenforgotten;
make sweet [2] melody, [3] sing
many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

b.psalm,
LXX 2 Ki.23.1, XXIII. Now these are the last
words of David.
David the son
of Jesse says, The man who was raised on high says, The anointed of
the God of Jacob,

c. The
sweet psalmist of Israel: [2] The
Spirit of Yahweh spoke by me, His
word was on my tongue

al.,
Ep.Eph.5.19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms
and hymns and
spiritual
songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

d. biblos psalmôn

Ev.Luc.20.42
. And David himself saith
in the book
of
Psalms, The Lord
said
unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,

That is
why Paul commanded "plucking your heart strings" which was a common
statement.

Lynn
Anderson etal:Lucian--160
A.D.—“It is impossible to pipe without a pipe or to PSALLEIN without a
lyre or to ride without a horse.” "The classical
meaning of psallo
continued into Hellenistic and post-New Testament
times. The satirist Lucian of
Samosata in the second century A.D. said

Hint: Psallein
means play a harp! Hint:
Lucian never ceased writting in ATTIC and never in Koine because he was
selling his documents and recital to the rich and famous who affected
ATTIC meaning the soft and effeminate.

2. the
sound of the
cithara or harp,psalmos d'alalazei A.Fr.57.7
(anap.);
there were contests in to psallein

And,
Lucian would say, you
cannot ride a horse
without a horse
just as
you cannot RECITElyric
poetry without a LYRE. Simple!
Lucian wrote in Attic!

Or
lyric poetry, which requires not a reader,
but a chorus and a
harp-accompaniment?

Neither
the Bible or any other manly material
is lyric poetry: that comes from the Lesbian singers.

The Psallo
words mean ONLY to pull or pluck
something which you must define. The sacrificial musicians were called PARASITES.

'It is impossible
to pipe [aulein] without
a
pipe or to strum [psallein] without
a lyre or to ride
without a horse' (Parasite 17)

"Sponging" is the superior art
and "the sponger has no ulterior object;
occupation and
pre-occupation are for him one and the same." However,........
"Other
arts,
again, are useless to their professor unless he has his plant;

you
cannot play the flute if you have not one to play;lyrical music requires a lyre,horsemanship
a horse.

But
of ours (sponging) one of the excellences
and conveniences is that
no instrument is
required for its
exercise.
The Parasite, 17. Translated by H.
W. and F. G.
Fowler, Vol III, 1905

Remember
that Apollo is
Abaddon or Apollyon in the book of Revelation. The muses or musicians
are the LOCUSTS or musical performers in the legends John knew about
to define the end-time holy whore worship.

39.
There were
also some instruments besides those which were blown into, and those
which were used with different strings, which gave forth only sounds of
a simple nature, such as the castanets (κρέμβαλα), which are mentioned
by Dicaearchus, in his
essay On the Manners and Customs of Greece,
where he says, that formerly certain instruments were in very frequent
use, in order to accompany women while dancing
and singing; and
when any one touched these instruments with their fingers
they uttered
a shrillsound. And he says
that this is plainly shown in the hymn to
Artemis, which begins thus- Artemis, now my mind will
have me utter
A pleasing
song in honour of your deity,
While this my comrade
strikes with nimblehand
The well-gilt brazen-sounding
castanets.

Note: only male perverts did this unless they were drunk.

"Hear,
ye Styacs, vendors of
twaddle, hypocritical
mouthers of words
who
alone by yourselves gobble up everything on the
platters before a
wise man can get a share, and then are caught doing the very opposite
of what you solemnly chant;" oglers of boys you are, and in that
alone emulating the founder of your philosophy, Zeno the Phoenician,
who never resorted to a woman, but always to boy-favourites,

Lynn
Anderson etal:Basil
The Great, bishop of Caesarea--mid 4th century—“For it
is a canticle and not a psalm; because it is sung
with harmonious
modulation by the unaccompanied voice and with no instrument sounding.”

Bill
Swetmon notes that
"Some think that the
verb has its
original signification of singing with an instrument. this is the
dominant sense in the Septuagint, and both Basil and Gregory of Nyssa
define a psalm as implying instrumental
accompaniment; and Clement
of
Alexandria, while
forbidding the use of the flute in the Agapae, permitted the harp."
(p. 28)

In
Homily X, 1; on Psalm I, Basil wrote:

2. When they are asked the
reason for this furious and truceless
war, they allege psalms and a kind of music varying
from the
custom which has obtained among you, and similar pretexts of which
they ought to be ashamed. Their lips speak not of the deeds
of men: they sing hymns to
God continually, working with their own hands
that they may have
to distribute to them that need.

Therefore, He devised for
us these harmonious melodies of the
psalms, that
they who are children in
age or even those who are youthful in disposition might to all
appearances chant
but, in reality, become
trained in soul.

For, never has any one of
the many indifferent
persons gone away easily holding in mind either an apostolic
or prophetic message,

but they do
chant the words of
the psalms even in the home,and they spread
them around in the marketplace,
and if perchance someone becomes exceedingly wrathful,
when he
begins to be soothed by the psalm,
he departs with the wrath of his
soul immediately lulled to sleep by means of the melody.

A psalm implies
serenity of soul; it is
the author of peace, which calms bewildering
and seething thoughts.
For it softens the wrath of the soul, and what is
unbridled it
chastens.

A psalm forms
friendships, unites
those separated, conciliates those at enmity.
Who, indeed, can still consider him an enemy
with whom he has uttered the same prayer
to God?

So that psalmody, bringing
about choral
singing, a bond, as it were, toward unity,
and joining
the people into a harmonious union of one
choir, produces
also the greatest of
blessings, charity.

It is in his personalpoems
that Gregory is most
original and
interesting.

Brown
notes of Clement:
"The
testimony of Clement is, that musical
instruments in worship
is fitter things for beasts
than for men. Basil
says, he thought musical instruments unprofitable and hurtful.

He
calls them, the
inventions of
Jubalof
the race
of Cain.
At
page 955, he says, "In such vain
arts,
as the playing
upon the harp, or pipe, as soon as the action ceases, the work
itself
vanishes. So that
really, according to the Apostle's expression, The
end of those things
is destruction." And
again, at page 957, he says,

"Laban
was a lover of the harp
and of music,
with which he would have sent away Jacob: if thou hadst told me, said
he, I would have sent thee away with mirth,
and with songs, with tabret,
and with harp.

And
stripped of all of your wealth.

[Laban
had used a musical party
with wine so that Jacob didn't know which woman he was sleeping with.
He intended to use the same musical party to SEND Jacove away
empty-handed]

"But the Patriarch avoided
that music, as
being a thing that would hinder his regarding the work of the
Lord,
and his considering
the works of
his hands."

Lynn
Anderson etal:Augustine--396
A.D.—“there are some songs which cannot be called Psalms. . . But those
are called Psalms which are sung to the psaltery.”The
transliteration of the Greek word psallo
parallels that of the word baptizo. The
complete meaning of “immersion” was not made clear by
simply anglicizing baptizo into baptize.

The real Augustine: You need to understand that psalms are poems and
poems tend to be poetic. You accept that or can engage in all of the
vile rituals inherent in "psalm" in the Greek world. Psalms were never
sung with instrumental accompaniment in the ekklesia or church in the
wilderness. As with Clement, the use of the "lyre" in allegory is NOT
in church but "how to conduct ourselves at feasts."

2. For a "Psalm" is a song, not any kind of song,
but a song to a
psaltery. A psaltery is a kind of
instrument of music, like the lyre and the harp, and such kinds of
instruments, which were invented for
music. He therefore who singeth Psalms,
not only singeth with his voice,
but with a certain instrument
besides, which is called a psaltery,
he accompanieth his voice
with his
hands. Wilt thou then sing a Psalm? Let not thy voice alone sound the
praises of God; but let thy works also be in harmony
with thy voice. ...
To please then the ear, sing with thy voice;
but with thy heartbenot
silent, with thy life be not still.
Thou devisest no
fraud in thy heart: thou singest a
Psalm to God. When thou eatest and drinkest, sing a Psalm: not by intermingling sweet
sounds suited to the ear, but by eating and drinking moderately,
frugally, temperarely:
for thus saith the Apostle, "whether ye eat or
drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the glory of God."

11. "Begin to the Lord in confession" (ver.
7). Begin with this, if thou wouldest arrive at a clear understanding
of the truth. If thou wilt be brought from the road of faith to the
profession of the reality, "begin in confession.

Let good works follow. "Sing unto our God upon
the harp." What is, "Upon the harp"? As I have already explained,
just like the Psalm upon the psaltery, so also is the "harp:" not
with voice only, but with works.

"I will sing a new song unto
Thee, O God" (ver.
9). "A new song" is of grace; "a new song" is of the new man; "a new
song" is of the
New Testament.

But
lest thou shouldest think that grace
departeth from the law, whereas rather by grace the law is
fulfilled,

"upon a psaltery of ten strings
will I sing unto Thee." Upon
the law of
ten
commandments: therein
may I sing to
Thee; therein may I rejoice to Thee; therein may "I sing to Thee a
new
song;"
for, "Love is the fulfilling of the
law."

But
they who
have not
lovemay
carry
the
psaltery, sing they
cannot. Contradiction
cannot make
my psaltery to be silent.

Psallo is TRANSLATED but Baptism is TRANSLITERATED.
It is a fact that
no one will ever find psallo translated as melody: in the parallel
command in Colossians 3 Paul said "with GRACE" in your heart. Both
melody (melos) and grace are qualities of SPEACH.

Vincent's: Word
Studies Of The New Testament, Vol. III, pg. 269-270
"...The noun psalm (Eph. 5:19; Col. 3:16;
I Cor. 14:26), which is etymologically akin to this verb (psallo in I
Cor. 14:15 DEM), is used in the New Testament of a religious song in
general, having the character of an Old Testament psalm...

"Some
think that the
verb has here its original
signification of singing with an instrument. This is its dominant sense
in the Septuagint, and both Basil and
Gregory of Nyssa define a psalm as implying instrumental
accompaniment...

"But neither Basil
nor Ambrose nor
Chrysostom, in
their panegyrics upon music, mention instrumental music, and Basil
expressly condemns
it. Bingham dismisses
the matter summarily, and cites Justin Martyr as saying expressly that
instrumental music was not used in the Christian Church. The verb is
used here in the general sense of singing praise."

"Think
not this; but
that enemy think of, of
whom said the Lord, "an enemy hath done this."

For He it is
who suggests that for thingsearthly he be worshipped,
for overthrow
the Christian Name
this enemy
cannot.
For he hath seen himself conquered by the fame
and praises of Christ,
he hath seen, whereas he slew
Christ's Martyrs, that they are crowned, he triumphed
over.

"He
hath begun
to be unable
to persuade men that Christ
is nought; and
because by reviling Christ, he now with
difficulty deceives,
by lauding Christ, he endeavours
to deceive.

Exaidô,
A. sing out, sing
one's last song,
of the swan, 2. sing the exodos, of a chorus,
II. trans., sing away
by means of a spell.

"Before
this what said he? Whom worship ye? A
Jew, dead,
crucified,
a man of no moment, who could not even from
himself drive
away death. When after His Name he saw running the whole
human race,
saw that

in the Name
of the Crucified

temples
are thrown down,

idols
are broken,

sacrifices abolished;

and
that all these things predicted in the Prophets
are
considered by men,

by
men with wonder astonished,
and closing
now their hearts against the reviling
of Christ;he
clothes
himself
with praise of Christ, and begins to deter
from
the faith in another manner.

Great
is the law of Christ, powerful is that
law, divine, ineffable! but who fulfilleth it? In the name of our
Saviour, "tread
upon the
lion
and the dragon."

By reviling
openly
roared
the lion; by lauding
craftilylurks
the dragon.

"Let
them come to the faith, who
doubted; and
not say, Who fulfilleth it? If on
their ownstrength
they presume, they will not fulfil it. Presuming on the grace of God
let them believe, presuming (on it) letthemcome; to be aided
come,
not to be judged.

"So
live all the faithful in the Name
of Christ,
each one in his degree fulfilling
the commands of Christ, whether
married, or celibates and virgins, they live as much as God granteth
t

Lynn
Anderson etal:Likewise,
the complete meaning of
“a songs sung with stringed instruments” is notevident
in the English
form of psalm. When, in ourheritage,
we discovered the definition of
baptize to be immersion, we made
it a doctrine that baptism must be by
immersion. What would consistency demand with regard to
psalms ?

Psalm
never had any musical meaning: it simply means to pluck
and make a
sound. We have shown that it primarily speaks of making war or it a
metaphor for "shooting forth a song."

There is absolutely no connection: everyone always knew
that baptism means to dip or to immerse. "Our heritage" did not
discover it and neither did it discover the universal testimony against
musical performance and it connection with vile people. The Spirit OF
Christ does not depend on our culture and Paul does not use any musical
terms including "psallo" which is primarily a warfare or polluting
word: therefore, pluck the harp strings and not the harp strings and
you young friend. In no culture in the history of the church
has
anyone thought that it meant ot make music or play a harp.

Lynn
Anderson etal:The
phrase often translated ‘in your heart’ has been
translated a little differently by many scholars:

The
parallel "with GRACE in your heart" then might become "WITH your
grace?" When we SPEAK one to another we are to pay close attention IN
our hearts but we do not sing WITH our hearts but our vocal cords.
If you are diverted by the Lucifer Principle you CANNOT pay
attention to the words of Christ or your own speaking.

Lynn Anderson
etal:Perhaps Eph 5:19 would be
more accurately translated: “Speak
to one another with songs sung with stringed instruments,
praises to God and all kinds of spiritual songs. Sing and make music with
your whole heart to the Lord.” Without this distinction
between
the varied types of songs, it would just read, “songs, songs, and
songs.”

But,
that
would be a lie based on the text and all known translations:
the NIV or
feminist version uses "music" but melody is NOT a music word, ever
never and then of bad women. As history notes "if a male sang
and
played he was drunk, perverted or just having fun." Literally this
verse says:

External:
Speaking
to
yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, Internal: singing and
making melody in your heart to the Lord;

Technically
you cannot SPEAK and SING at the same time. Since they spoke
in
the synagogue and did not sing, bottom line is there is no musical
content for the school of the Bible.

Logik-os,
( [logos]
) A. of or for speaking or speech,
merê l. the organs of speech, logikê,
hê, speech,opposite to mousikê

Psallo
never speaks of "melody" in a tuneful sense.

The book of
PRAISES was named PSALMS by the Greeks. There are only 57
Mizmors
which are called PSALMS in the BOOK of psalms. Of these, 7
are
dedicated to sacrificial agents or events: the other PSALMS do not
include instruments. All of the instrumental psalms have
truly
bad or evil connotations. That is because they were the PRAISE songs
used by the Levitical Warrior Musicians to intimidate the enemy.

The BOOK of Psalms in the Greek translation are clearly marked as
Psalms, Hymns, Spiritual Songs and Maschils or dark sayings ot
proverbs. Therefore, when Paul commanded Psalms, hymns and spiritual
songs in Romans 15 he defined "that which is
written."
In Ephesians 5
he defined the SPIRIT and Jesus said "my words
are Spirit and Life"
(Jon 6:63). In Colossians he says to speak the Words of
Christ.
Therefore, the songs, songs and songs misses elementary Bible.

No musical hostile takeover artists have any intention of using the
songs written by the Spirit OF Christ and they do not intend to present
anything which will allow you to see THROUGH them and see Christ who
Paul said will be OUTSIDE suffering from your reproaches.

Lynn
Anderson etal:
Twice,
Paul refers to Christ’s return being heralded by the “trumpet
of
the Lord”
(I Cor. 15:52, I Thess 4:16). Why does God own a musical
instrument
and why does He employ it to announce the most dramatic event
ever?
Why doesn’t He use voices at such a moment? Could it be there
are
things that an instrument can express that a voice cannot?1 Cor 15:52 “ . . . in a flash, in
the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will
sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.”

1 Th
4:16 “For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a
loud command, with the voice of
the archangel and with the trumpet call
of God, and the dead inChrist
will rise first.”

I suppose many of the living will be PLAYING
the trumpet REALLY LOUD? Maybe the "trumpet" has sounded as the
country-wide hostile invasion of many religious groups by professional
entertainers? Maybe the women and effeminate playing in the
holy
places is both a verbal and visual aid so that those with the mark of
the word will flee in droves. Revelation has the locusts or
muses
taking captive a certain class and punishing them for easy left-behinds.

These, like Revelation 18, are signs of JUDGMENT and a warning for the
living to "preach the gospel."

Salpinx I. a war-trumpet, trump, salpizôheaven
trumpeted around, of
thunder as if a signal for
battle,

Sêmainô [sêma] I. to shew by a sign, indicate, make known, 2. in war, to give
the signal
of
attack, Thuc.;
sê. têi salpingi, when signal was given
for the Greeks to attack

Klazô2. of dogs, bark, Pan and
his
pipes, 3. of things, as
of arrows in the quiver, clash, rattle, klazousi kôdônes phobonring forth
terror, of the sea, roar, salpinx
. .
aoidan;

Echêsalpingos,a
sound or noise of any sort, confused noise of a
crowd, the roar of the sea, the groaning of trees in a wind,

The VOICE sounds
like a trumpet but ALL of the trumpet sounds induce MORTALFEAR.

Amos
3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people
not be afraid? shall there be evil in a
city, and the LORD hath not done it?

Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth
his secret unto his servants the prophets.

God
speaks spiritual truth ONLY through the prophets and apostles.
No
prophet ever commanded musical instruments and no prophet FAILED to
associate musical instrument with a breakdown into wine, women and
music.

Here is a true translation and not the feminists commentary.
Paul
warned that we worship in the PLACE of the spirit and not in the FLESH.
The reason was that the dogs or "old style praise singers" were lurking
and lusting.

1
Cor. 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and
blood
cannot
inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption
inherit
incorruption.

1
Cor. 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep,
but we shall all be changed,

You will notice
that the trumpet is the MARK that you have been TAKEN CAPTIVE.

Amos 2:2
But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall
devour the
palaces of Kirioth:
and Moab shall die with tumult,
with shouting,
and with the sound of the trumpet:

1
Cor. 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling
of an eye, ..........at the last trump:
..........for the trumpet shall sound,
..........and the dead
shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall
be changed.

This is consisten with the only
authorized use of the trumpet: to
sound a warning or alarm and God outlawed this for the synagogue or
church in the wilderness.
Isn't this too late to add to the church worship--unless you plan to be
left behind?

1 Thess 4:16 For the Lord
himself shall descend from heaven
with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpof
God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

1 Thess 4:17 Then
we which are alive and remain
shall be caught up together with them in the
clouds, to meet
the Lord in the air:and so shall we ever be with the
Lord.

1 Thess 4:18 Wherefore comfort
one another with thesewords.

This defines the SYNAGOGUE
of Romans 15 where the direct command for us is to comfort one another
with the WORDS OF GOD.

Additional
Proof Text:

2
Peter 2:13 And shall receive
the reward of unrighteousness, ..........as they that count
it pleasure to
riot in the day time. ..........Spots they are
and blemishes, sporting themselves ..........with their own
deceivings [delusions] while
they feast with you;..........All
musicians and rhetoricians
are equated to parasites.

Entrupo (g1792) en-troo-fah'-o;
from 1722 and
5171; to revel in: - sporting selves.gamêliôi
lechei [marriage
couch-bed] hêdonais,
playing in the wind,
exult
over,treat
haughtily or
contemptuously, made a mock
of, tinos
sumphorais, III.
use or abuse at pleasure

[See
Plato-Symposium]Symposium;
Then, said Eryximachus, as you are all agreed that drinking is to be
voluntary, and that there is to be no compulsion,..........I move, in the next place, that the flute-girl,
who has just made her appearance,..........be told to go away and play to herself,
or, if she likes, to the women who are within.
To-day let us have conversation instead; and, if
you will allow me, I
will tell you what sort of conversation. This proposal having been
accepted, Eryximachus proceeded as follows:-

And we know
for certain that those who are LOST will be engaged in a musical
"worship service" using loud trumpets: they will not hear the voice
LIKE a trumpet and that is how Satan intends to make sure that you are
not able to even hear the trumpet which seems to be sounding as we
speak.

Lynn
Anderson etal:C. Revelation
Revelation is full of references to instruments, including at least two
situations where God Himself handsout
the harps and trumpets (a
strange thing for Him to do if He doesn’t wish to be worshipped in that
way). (Rev. 8:2, 15:2)Rev
5:8 “And when he had taken it, the four living creatures
and the twenty-four elders fell down
before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls
full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.”

Rev 5:8 And when he
had taken the book,

and
the four beasts [living creatures]four and
twenty elders

fell
down before
the Lamb

having[holding]every
one of them harps,

and[holding] golden vials full of odours,

which
are the prayers of saint

Now, try PLAYING your harps!
The first time these "Living Creatures" are mentioned in the Bible is
in Gen. 3:24, where they are called "CHERUBIM,"
but are not described. They were placed at the entrance
to the "Garden
of Eden" to prevent the
re-entrance of Adam and Eve, and to keep the
way of the "Tree of Life." It
would appear as if at the place where
they were sationed there was a Tabernacle, a place of worship to which
Cain and Abel resorted to make their offerings, and that it was from
there that Cain went out from the "PRESENCE OF THE LORD."
Gen. 4:16.

1Chr.
21:29 For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses
made in the wilderness,
and the
altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.
1Chr. 21:30 But David could not go before it to enquire of God:
for he
was afraid because of the sword of the angel
of the LORD.

One
of the definition of the beast in Revelation is PAN who uses his HORNS
or musical instruments to help evil people build their mountain kingdom:

Later
I thought of
this clown of the flute
as a grotesque
modern
form
of the great
god
Pan
of the forest whom
the Greeks
worshipped as the symbol of cosmic
vitality--serene,
goat-footed Pan who
plays the sacred
syrinx
(pan pipes) in the
sinking dusk and with its magic
sound
evokes an echo in
all things: leaves and fountains shiver, the stars
begin to tremble, and the shaggy
goats dance at the edge of
the grove. (qtd. in
Kinsley, David R. The Sword
and the Flute:
33, n. 49)

Pan
is the same Dionysus worship in the Book of Revelation and that to
which the elders abandoned the nation when they demanded a king so that
they could worship like the nations:

"Pan is the symbol of the
universe, the
personification of nature, representative of all the Gods. His
parentage was Hermes or Zeus. His colour was royal purple. He was a dark
wine red,
sometimes
called moon blood.
Pan was equivalent to Dionysus."

There was a half
hours silence before the incense altar to which no harp player could
come without getting killed.

Lynn
Anderson etal: Rev
14:2 “And I heard a sound
from heaven like the roar of rushing
waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that
of harpists playing their harps.”

Note that the 144,000 are on
the Earth:

AND
I looked, and, lo, a Lamb
stood on the mount
Sion, and with him
an
hundred forty and four thousand, having his
Fathers name
written in their foreheads. Rev 14:1

What they heard was
from
heaven.

And
I heard a voice from heaven, ..........like the sound of many
waters and ..........like
the sound of loud
thunder, and the voice
which I heard was ..........like
the sound of harpists playing on their harps. Rev 14:2NAS

And
I heard a voice from heaven ..........like
the sound of many waters and ..........like
the sound of loud
thunder; the voice
I
heard was ..........like
the sound
of harpersplaying on their harps
Revelation 14:2RSV

And
they sung as
it were
a new songbefore the throne,
and before the four
beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn
that song but
the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the
earth. Rev 14:3

Unless
you are literally or spiritually dead, there is another angel:

And I
saw another angel fly in
the midst of heaven,..........having the everlasting
gospel to preach
unto them that dwell
on
the earth, ..........and to every
nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, Rev 14:6

The
word preach like the Latin sermo
means "in a conversational language."

INSTRUMENTAL
NOISE is always the MARK or SOUND of Judgment and NOT Spiritual worship.

Saying[not
singing] with a
loud voice, FearGod,
and give glory to him; ..........for the hour
of his judgment is
come:..........and worship him
that made heaven,
and earth, and the
sea, ..........and the
fountains of waters. Rev 14:7
Proskuneo
(g4352) pros-koo-neh'-o; from 4314 and a prob.
der.
of 2965 (mean. to kiss, like a dog licking his master's hand); to fawn
or crouch to, i.e. (lit. or fig.) prostrate
oneself in homage
(do reverence to, adore): - worship.

Rev
14:9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice,
If any
man
worship the beast and his image,
and receive his mark in his forehead,
or in his hand,

Rev 14:10
The same shall drink of the wine
of the wrath of God, which is poured
out without mixture into the cup of his indignation;
and he shall be tormented with fire
and brimstone in the presence of
the holyangels,
and in the presence of the Lamb:

God always warns you and
those whom the gods destroy first drive mad.

Wisd 17.16 - And whoever was there fell down, and
thus was kept shut up in a prison not made of iron;

17 - for whether he was a farmer or a
shepherd or a workman who toiled in the wilderness, he was seized,
and endured the inescapable fate; for with one chain of darkness they
all were bound.

18 - Whether there came a whistlingwind,
or a melodious
sound
of
birds in wide
-
spreading
branches, or the rhythm of violently rushing water,

19 - or the harsh crash of rocks
hurled
down, or the unseen running of leaping animals, or the sound of the
most savage roaring beasts, or an echo
thrown back from a hollow of the mountains, it paralyzed
them with
terror.

20 - For the whole world was illumined
with brilliantlight, and was
engaged in unhindered work,

21 - while over those men alone
heavy
night was spread, an image of the darkness that was
destined
to receive
them; but still heavier than darkness were they to
themselves.

18:1 - But for thy holy ones there was very
great light. Their enemies heard their voices but did not see their
forms, and counted them happy for not having suffered,

Wisd 19.13 - The punishments did not come
upon the
sinners
without
prior signs in
the violence
of thunder,[Rev 14]
for they
justly suffered because of their wickedacts;
for they
practiced a more bitter hatred of strangers.

Amos
3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people
not be afraid? shall there be evil in a
city, and the LORD hath not done it?

Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth
his secret unto his servants the prophets.

14 - Others had refused
to receive
strangers
when they
came to them,
but these
made slaves
of guests who were their benefactors.

Stole the
church house of widows.

15 - And not only so, but punishment of
some sort will come upon the former for their hostile reception of
the aliens;

16 - but the latter, after
receiving
them with festal
celebrations,
afflicted with terrible sufferings
those who had already shared the same
rights.

17 - They were stricken
also with loss
of
sight - -
just as were
those at the door of the righteous man - - when, surrounded by
yawning darkness, each tried to find the way through his own
door.

18 - For the elements
changed places with one
another,
as on a harp the notes vary
the nature of the rhythm,
while
each note remains the
same.
This may
be clearly
inferred from the sight of what took place.

19
- For land
animals were transformed
into water
creatures,
and
creatures that
swim moved over to the land.

20
- Fire even in water
retained its normal
power,
and water forgot its fire -quenching
nature.

However, the
wrath Paul warned about when the women wave unholy ARMS is;

Org-aô
, I.to be getting ready to bear, growing
ripe for something, and of fruit, swell
as it ripens, II. of men, swell
with lust, waxwanton,
be rampant, 2. generally, to be
eager or ready, to be excited, 3. metaph., full-blooded,
swollen with passion or pride, sphrigôntathumonA.Pr.382
; muthon
E.Supp.478 . 4.swell
with desire, be at heat,

Lynn
Anderson etal:Rev 15:3 “They held harps given them by
God and sang the song of Moses
the servant of God and the song of the Lamb: "Great and marvelous are
your deeds, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are your ways, King of the
ages.”

The Greek
ECHO meanshold
(used in very various
applications, literally or figuratively, direct or remote; such as
possession, ability, contiguity.

It
never means
PLAY. Furthermore, the harps in the cursed
monarchy are always
the HARPS OF DAVID. These are the harps of God. God created us all with
"harp strings" which make the "heart string" twang.

Like
the incense, however, the harps
are only symbolic,reflecting
the Jewish temple worship.The
fact that bothhands of the
elder were occupied does
not present an insuperable barrier to prostration
in worship." (William S. Smith).

AND I
saw (present
tense!) another sign
in
heaven [image of jealousy], great and
marvellous, seven
angels having the seven last
plagues; for in
them is
filled up the wrath of God. Re 15:1

Morris
Silver: The
image of jealousy (Ezek 8:3) in
the LXX and Old Latin may be trnslated as "statue/image of the
trader/buyer."Torczyner
suggests that the compound term sha mala was
transmitted from Assyrian
(not Babylonian) into Hebrew as semel, with sh
being pronounced as s. Thus, again, the "image of
jealousy" whose
presence in the sanctuary
enraged Ezekiel was a businessman,
not
an idol.

When Apollo, the
Having-fallen star unleashed the LOCUSTS or MUSES,
they immediately began sowing discord and breaking up churches of all
faiths. This is a MARK of he beast.

Sêmeion
2. sign from the gods, omen Kathair-eô to s. to take it down, strike
the flag,
as a sign of dissolving
an assembly, And.1.36; to tês ekklêsias,
3. of sorcerers,
bring down from the sky, selênên [sign in the moon].
*
V. less
freq. like the simple [heresy] hairein, take and
carry off

Did you notice that the urge is to STRIKE THE FLAG
and remove the name
of Christ from the ekklesia or church sign. They DISSOLVE
the ekklesia
and CONVERT it into a synagogue of Satan: a house
of merchandise. This is he same HERESY
connected to the SELF-pleasing terms used by Paul in Romans 15.

2
Cor 2:17 For we are not as
many, which corrupt
the word of God: but as
of sincerity, but
as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

kapêl-euô, (g2585) A. to be a retail-dealer,
drive a petty trade...
kapêleu' drive
a trade, mathêmata sell
learning byretail, hawk it about,2 Ep.Cor.2.17, of prostitutes, playing tricks
with
life

Hdt.1.155 Heredotus: Cyrus
told how to take the FIGHT out of the enemy:
[4] But pardon the Lydians, and give them this
command so that they not revolt or pose a danger to you:send and
forbid them to possess weapons of war,............and
order them to wear tunics under their cloaks...........
and knee-boots on
their feet,...........
and
to teach their sons lyre-playing
[kitharizein]...........
and song[psallein]and
dance............and
shop-keeping[huckstering]............
And quickly, O king,...........
you
shall see them become
womeninstead
of men,...........
so
that you need not fear them, that they might revolt."

And I
saw as it
were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had
gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark,
and over the number of his name, stand on the sea
of glass, (as it
were) HOLDINGthe
harps of God. Revelation 15:2

And
theysing the song
of Moses the
servant of God,...........
and
the song of the Lamb,saying (3004), Great and
marvellous are thy
works,
Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of
saints. Revelation 15:3

Jamison-Fausett-Brown
notes that:

"In the
Jewish temple, musical instruments and singing resounded
during the whole time of the offering of the sacrifices,
which formed the first part of the service.

the
people praying secretly all the time. The
half-hour stillness implies, too, the earnest adoring expectation with
which the blessed spirits and the angels await the succeeding unfolding
of God's judgments. A short space is implied; for even an hour is so
used (Re 17:12 18:10,19).

Scripture is clearly not ‘silent’
on the use of
instruments. Rather, the understanding of God that I gain
from it is
that He greatly appreciates that form of worship, to the point of even
commanding it at times, and providing the gifts and instruments to do
so!

Rev
15:8 And the temple was filled with smoke
from the glory of
God,
and from
his power; and NO MAN WAS ABLE TO ENTER
till the seven plagues of
the seven angels were fulfilled.

Lynn
Anderson etal:IV. Tradition

Since there is no scriptural basis for the lack of
instruments, the only reason is tradition.

For those
holding to traditions of men, Jesus rebukes with
the words of Isaiah, Mark 7:7-9
“’They worship me in
vain; their teachings are but rulestaught
by men.’You have let go of
the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of
men." And
he said to them: "You have a fine way of settingaside
the commands of
God in order to observe your own traditions!”

If
you look up words in a lexicon be assured that you will find strong
delusions. Why would anyone search from cover to
cover for
"instruments" and then use those knowing that they are trying to trump
the Bible and all of church history before them. Is this
mystical
or what? We have shown that ALL of the proof texts show
negative
or Satanic implications: Peter told the Jews blinded at Mount Sinai
that they would not be able to read black text on white paper until
they turned or converted to Christ. No one removes the name of CHRIST:
Jesus comes and takes the lampstand or the "seven spirits of God" all
related to divine knowledge which proves that God will not judge you by
your sight or sound so you are wasting time and lives.

Next, let us establish that the hypocrites are slick speakers, singers,
musicians, actors or dancers.

Matt. 15:7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy
of you, saying,

Hypokrites
(g5273) hoop-ok-ree-tace'; from
5271; an actor under an assumed character (stage-player), i.e. (fig.)
a dissembler ("hypocrite"): - hypocrite.

Rhêtor-ikos ,
ê, on, oratorical, hê rhêtorikê (sc. technê). These
are the craftsmen
lumped with
the singers, musicians and "grinder" doing merchandise in the house
of prayer. Rev. 18:22

LATIN:canto I. Neutr., to produce
melodious sounds
(by the voice
or an instrument),
to sound, sing, play
(class. in prose and poetry;
to sing and play while the actor accompanies the song with gestures or dancing, C. Transf., of instruments, to sound,
resound: 2. Of the
singing pronunciation of an orator,
to declaim in a singing tone, to sing

How
Isaiah defines the hypocrites:

For
the Lord hath poured out
upon you the spirit
of deep
sleep,and
hath closed your
eyes:
the prophets and your rulers,the
seers hath he covered. Isa 29:10

And
the vision of all is become unto youas
the words of a book that is sealed,which
men deliver to one that is learned, saying,Read
this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot;for
it is sealed: Isa
29:11

And
the book is delivered to him that is notlearned,
saying,Read
this, I pray thee:and
he saith, I am not learned. Isa
29:12

Wherefore the Lord said,Forasmuch
as this people draw
near
me with their mouth,and
with their lips do honour me,but
have removed their heart far from me,and their
fear toward me is taught by the
precept of men:
Isa 29:13

Seems
like the "law of silence" as preventing the addition to anything not
commanded which does not assist the teaching of the Words of God.

How
Ezekiel defines the same
hypocrites:

Jesus
spoke in parables to the professional
"sermon" speakers and "prayer" sayers where a hymn is a prayer. That
was to MAKE SURE that the truth would NOT penetrate and they be saved.

Ezek
33:30 Also, thou son of
man, the children of thypeople
still are talking against
theeby
the walls and in the doors of the houses, and

speak one to another, every
one to his brother,
saying,Come,
I pray you, and hearwhat
is the word that comethforth
from the
Lord.

Ezek
33:31 And they come unto
thee as the people
cometh,
and they
sit before thee as my
people,
and they
hear thy words,but
they will not do
them:

for
with their mouth they shew much
love,but their heart
goeth
after their covetousness.

Only
corrupters of the Word or selling stuff for a prophet is a hypocrite.
Because no performing art contributes to anything but the pleasure of
idle people, they are defined by the lexicon as hypocrites and
therefore parasites.

GOD'S
PICTURE OF VAIN RELIGION, ENDORSED
BY JESUS

Ezek
33:32 And, lo, thou art
unto them as
a very lovely songof one that
hath a pleasant
voice,and can play
well on an
instrument:for
they hear thy words,but
they do
them not.

JFB
30. Not only the
remnant in Judea, but those at the Chebar,
though less flagrantly, betrayed the same unbelieving spirit. talking
against
thee--Though going
to
the prophet to hear the word of the Lord, they criticised, in
an unfriendly
spirit, his
peculiarities of manner and his enigmatical style (Eze 20:49); making
these the excuse for their impenitence. Their talking was not
directly "against" Ezekiel, for they professed
to like his ministrations; but God's word speaks
of things as
they really are, not as they appear.

Jameson Fawcett
Brown
notes:
Vulgate
translates,
"They turn thy
words
into a song of
their mouths." heart
goeth after covetousness--the grand rival to the
love of God;
therefore called "idolatry," and therefore
associated with impure
carnallove, as both alike transfer
the heart's
affection from the
Creator to the creature

Lynn
Anderson etal: (It is
interesting to note that the very next chapter in Isaiah
promises a day with song with flutes,
tambourines,
and harps. Isaiah 30.)

We have looked at Isaiah 30 as the REASON
for which HELL was created. The definition of a HYPOCRITE
gives us a clue. Because the Jews and Israelites burned
children to Molech to the
beat of musical instruments, God pronounces doom on similar nationalworship by showing them going in musical
procession to Topheth (from
tambourine) to do their dirty work. The SOUNDS of God driving
His
enemies into HELL will be the same wind, string
and percussion
instruments lucifer--the singing and harp playing prostitute--used to
wholly seduce Eve in a sexual sense says Paul. I will repeat it from
the version we know Jesus quoted from.

Because
spiritual people run for their lives, the only ones performing or
"enjoing" the hypocritic arts to replace the Word of God are THE ONES
doomed to hell.

Again,
the SOUNDS in Revelation are of impending doom: get busy and preach the
gospel or burn! The baptism of spirit and fire are promised to the
"generation of Vipers."

Behold,
the name of the Lord
comes after a long time, burning
wrath;
the word of
his lips is with glory, a wordfull of anger,
and the anger
of his
wrath shall devour as
fire.
Isaiah 30:27 LXX

And
his breath, as rushingwater in a
valley, reach reach as far as
the neck, and be
divided, to confound the nations for their vain error; error also shall pursue
them
and overtake them.
Isaiah 30:28 LXX

The
Septuagint translates Verse 29
consistent with the rest of the chapter.

Must
ye always
rejoice, and go into my holy places
continually, as they
that keep
a
feast?
and must ye go
with apipe,as those
that rejoice into the mountain of the Lord, to the
God of
Israel Isaiah 30:29 LXX

and
the Lord shall make his
glorious voice to be heard and the wrath
of his arm [Messiah the
Intercessor], to make a display with
wrath
and anger and devouring
flame:
he shall lighten
terribly, and his wrath shall
be as water and violent hail. Isaiah 30:30 LXX

For
by the voice of the Lord
the Assyrians shall be overcome, even
by
the stroke where with he
shall smite them. Isaiah 30:31
LXX

And
it shall happen to him from
every side, that they from whom their hope
of assistance was, in
which he trusted, themselvesshall
war against him in turn
with drumsand with harp.
Isaiah 30:32 LXX

For
thou shalt be required
before thy time: has it been prepared for thee also
to reign? nay,
God has prepared
for
thee
a deep
trench, wood piled fire
and much wood: the wrath of
the
Lord shall be as a trenchkindled
with sulphur.
Isaiah 30:33 LXX

Is.
14:11 Thy pomp is
brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols:
the worm is spread under thee, and the maggots
cover thee.
Amos 5:23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy
songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

Again,
those who bought the house and who run when the trumpet blows in the
holy place will have been there and gone. Therefore, the ONLY ones
being beaten into hell to the beat of Lucifer's instruments are the
MUSES who are known as the LOCUSTS of Apollyon's musical worship team.

Lynn
Anderson etal:The
early church fathers do not mention the use of instruments
(except in referring to songs as psalms).

That is just a flat untruth: The
church fathers understand the "singing and harp playing prostitute" in
the garden of Eden and the fallen angels who seduced with music. Thse
are the same "lusted after fruits" John calls sorcerers in Rev 18 who
HAD deceived the whole world.

The
church fathers literature is filled with the repudiation of musical
instruments even in social settings because the music engendered lust
and disorderly conduct. Those who lie about Clement of
Alexander
should know that he says that it is not a sin to use a liar, BUT they
fail to tell you that he was speaking of social meals or OUTSIDE OF
CHURCH.

Those sowing discord claims that the church of Christ is historyless
and make such claims know that most people will believe it to be
honest. Nothing could be less true or miss leading:

"Such
allegorizing passages contain the
nucleuses of the later substance, and perhaps the presage of the
future trends of Christian music. The first three
centuries of the
church witnessed many controversies; some of them
concerned
themselves directly with music. The most important
of these issues
were: (a) organized versus spontaneous praying and singing; (b)
scriptural versus extrascriptural poems; (c) fusion with Hellenistic
music; (d) vocal versus instrumental music; (e) the rise of monasticism
and its influence upon ecclesiastical chant."
(Interpreter's Dict of the Bible, Music, p. 467).

The
first problem occurred when the doxologies
of the Bible which were like Psalms were replaced by "a great number
of spontaneous and highly individualized doxologies." However, the
non-Biblical responses were ratified and codified at the second synod
of Vaison in 529. This writing of their own "song book" virtually
destroyed spontaneous or Biblical worship.

In
fact, the ACT of singing was not introduced until about th eyear 373.

"Already
at the end of the second century the
Byzantine, Syrian, and later the Armenian church showed a marked
preference for new, nonscriptural hymns, despite
all warnings by the
catholic authorities. Even Canon 59 of the Council of Laodicea
(360-81), which expressly prohibited nonscriptural
texts, was
constantly circumvented and openly violated, as the
enormous hymn
literature of the Eastern churches demonstrates."

They
rejected musical performers along with sorcerers, instrument
players, prostitutes and Sodomites.
They understood the Bible and were
Old Testament literate which non of the "advanced degrees" apparently
have ever read. They ALL
explain WHY they didn't use instruments:
because it was universally condemned in the Bible and because it has an
evil effect on both performers and the "audience." "Melody as
tunefulness belongs to the 19th century" says the Britannica an other
sources. Harmony began to develop after about 100 by monks
and
professionals trying to fit the Psalms to organ pitches. To do that
they had to add the oooos, aaaaahs and other sounds.

And
Neander says, that it was not
until the
8thcentury
that the idea
was first heard of Instrumental music, in the worship
of God, was not
practised by the
primitivechristians,
as is evident from church
history.

The
organ was first
introduced into the church service by Marianus Sanutus, in the year 1290;
and the first that was known in the West,
was one sent to Pepin,
by Constantinus Copronymus, about the middle of the
8th century.

But
that they were not used in
the christian church in the primitivetimes,
is attested by all the ancient
writers with one consent. This I might easily show by a
thousand testimonies,

from
Clement of
Alexandria, Basil, Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, Chrysostom, am many
others; all of whom figuratively
explain the
passages of the Old
Testament, which speak of
musical instruments. For
these and many more click for details.

When
we have to do
with Pagans, and show this coming to pass in theChurchof Christ, which before
was predicted of the Name
of Christ, of the Head
and Body of Christ, lest they think that
we have forged
these predictions,
and from things which
have happened,
as though they were future, had made them up, we bring forth the
books of the Jews

When
people take CHRIST out of their identifier it is proof that Jesus has
been there and gone and the songs in the temple will be howlings
because He has come to remove His candlestick of seven spirits OF
Divine knowledge.

Lynn
Anderson etal:There
could be several reasons for this.

1.
Suffering severe persecution, it may have been inconvenient to tote
around a harp in secret.

In fact toting
around a harp would make them extremely welcome in
the marketplaces and all low class activities.2.
Instruments were a sign of joy. Destruction
of the Temple,
dispersion of the Jews, persecution of the church
were all occasions
for lament. The prophets warned of cursed times when joyous
instruments would be silent.

I
have a nice flute my dog and I made out of a deer leg bone: why do you
think they named the TIBIA? They could have clapped their
hands:
they didn't since it was most often to hiss the looser. They
could have stretched a piece of gut across a chair and produced the
rhythm because harps did not play tunefully. The lyre didn't
even
have a sound box. They could have met in the forums and the
people who went there for entertainment would have enjoyed it. They
might have been more EVANGELICAL if they had added the methods of the
world to attract the world. Christians were despised because
they
did not do singing musically or use instruments.

All of thes passages are not just LAMENTING
for the loss of their
flutes and harps which anyone could afford and many people could play. Their
lamenting is the RESULT of false leaders using wine, women and music
and fleecing the people by taking unlawful tithes.
The result was that
the people hungered and thirsted for the WORD and wandered from sea to
sea but could not find it. As a result, the pagan leader's wives could
no longer steal wine to get drunk while the people starved.
As a
result of failure to teach the word, the people went into exile and the
PROUD musical wives were led captive with fishhooks
in their nose.

Amos
8:2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket [homosexualsingers]
of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my
people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
Amos 8:3
And the songs of the temple
shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD:
there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them
forth with silence. [As
Jesus cast out the musical minstrels LIKE DUNG.]
Amos 8:11 Behold, the days
come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine
in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing
the words of the LORD:

Lynn
Anderson etal confusing
cause and
effect: Isa 14:11 “All your pomp
has been brought down to the grave, along
with the noise of your HARP; maggots
are spread out beneath you and worms cover you.”This speaks of Lucifer

Both Tyre and Babylon
are types of Lucifer and we have drawings of a
burial site where the king went into
the grave with his harps and buried alive harpists. Notice
that
this is the kings or the "senior pastors" of the nations of which
Israel was one.

Thy
glory has come
down to Hades,
and thy greatmirth:
under thee they shall
spread corruption and the worm
shall be thy covering. Isaiah 14:11 LXX

Ludibrium
I.
a mockery, derision, wantonness.
. A laughing-stock, butt, jest,
sport B. A scoff, jest, sport: to reproach jestingly, scoff,
such
a drunkard as to be a standing jest, C. Abuse, violence done to a
woman: in corporum ludibria deflere,

Moses
saw that the people were running
wild and that
Aaron had
let them get out of control and so become a laughingstock to their enemies.
Exodus 32:25

Chrysostom
notes:For
dancing, and cymbals,
and flutes,
and shameful words, and songs, and drunkenness, and revellings, and
all the Devil's great heap
(polu o tou diabolou
forutoj) of garbage is then
introduced. they are indignent that the woman is not
exhibited to
a multitude,
that she is not set
forth as a stage spectacle,
common to
all beholders: whereas most assuredly they should rather
count it insult when these things do take place; and a laughing
stock, and a farce.

to look upon the beauty
of the damsel's countenance; nor yet
in the house only but even through
the market-place
do they lead her in pomp
to make an exhibition;

Isa
14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O LUCIFER
son
of the morning!
how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst
weaken the nations!

Behold,
the Lord
will cast her out, and he will smite
her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured
(burned up)
with fire.
Zechariah 9:4

And
it shall come to pass in
that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy
years,
according to the days of one king: after the
end of
seventy years shall
Tyre
sing as an harlot.
Is.23:15

"Take
an harp, go about the city,
thou harlot that hast been
forgotten; make sweet
melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered (as a male)."
Is.23:16

Lynn
Anderson etal:Isa
24:6-8 “Therefore a curse consumes
the earth; its people must bear their guilt.
Therefore earth's inhabitants are burned up, and very few
are left. The new wine dries up and the vine withers; all the
merrymakers
groan. The gaiety of the tambourines
is stilled, the noise
of the revelers has stopped, the joyful harp is silent.”

Their
lostness was CAUSED by
their reveling with music: does anyone suggest that we CAN now revel?

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest;
as
with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her
mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender,
so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the
giver of usury to him. Isa 24:2

See
Revelation 18 Parallel.

The land shall be utterly
emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the
Lord hath spoken this word. Isa 24:3

The earth mourneth
and fadeth away,
the world languisheth and fadeth away,
the haughtypeople of the earth
do languish. Isa 24:4

The earth also is defiled
under the inhabitants thereof;

because
they have transgressed the laws,changed the ordinance,broken the everlasting
covenant. Isa 24:5

Does
that sound like a law of silence?

Therefore hath
the
curse devoured the earth,
and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants
of the earth are burned, and few men left. Isa 24:6

The new wine
mourneth, the vine languisheth,..........
all the merryhearted
do
sigh. Isa 24:7

The mirth
of tabrets ceaseth,
the noise
of them that
rejoice endeth,..........
the joy of the
harp ceaseth.
Isa 24:8

They shall
not drink wine with a song; [Parallel strolling
minstrel / prostitute]..........strong drink shall be
bitter to them that drink it. Isa 24:9

The city of confusion
is broken down: every house is
shut up, that no man may come in. Isa 24:10
There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy
is
darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. Isa 24:11
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten
with destruction. Isa 24:12
When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people,

there shall be as
the shaking of an olive
tree,
and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is
done. Isa 24:13

Mizmowr (h4210) miz-more'; from
2167; prop.instrumental
music;
by impl. a poem set to notes: - psalm. For afore
the harvest, when the bud
is perfect, and the sour grape is
ripening in the
flower,

he
shall both
cut off the
sprigs with pruning
hooks,
and take away and cut down the
branches. Is.18:5

They
shall be left
together unto the fowls
of the mountains,
and to thebeasts
of the earth: and
the fowlsshall summer upon
them, and all the beasts
of the earth shall winter
upon them. Isa 18:6

They shall lift
up their voice, they shall sing for
the majesty of the Lord, they shall cry aloud from
the sea.
Isa 24:14

H5375 This is the Hebrew word
for the Pleasuring or creating
excitement Paul outlawed in
the synagogue in romans 15.

No
reader of the Greek literature can escape
the fact that this was caused by singing and music.

Wherefore glorify ye
the Lord in the fires, even the name of the
Lord God of Israel in the isles of the sea. Isa 24:15

The universal MARK
of being lost beyond redemption and taken captive.

From
the uttermost part of the earth have we
heard songs, even glory to the
righteous. Isa 24:16

Zamiyr (h2158) zaw-meer'; or
zamir zaw-meer'; and (fem.)
zÿmirah zem-ee-raw'; from 2167; a song
to be accompanied with
instrumental
music:
- psalm (-ist), singing, song

Zamar
is never used without defining the
instrument: therefore, one CAN sing with a harp but SING does not
include a harp.

Horror
hath taken hold upon me because of
the wicked that forsake thy law. Psa 119:53

But, David
who was never a Worship Leader
said:

Thy
statutes have been my songsin the house
[self] of
my pilgrimage. Psa
119:54
I have remembered thy name, O Lord, in the night, and have kept
thy
law.
Psa 119:55

But I said, My leanness, my leanness,

The Lord
will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods
of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place,
even all the isles of the heathen. Zep.2:11

Lynn
Anderson etal:Isa
27:13 And in that
day a great trumpet will sound. Those who were
perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and
worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.

Isa
27:12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beatoff
from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt,
and ye shall be
gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

Isa
27:13 And it shall come to pass in that
day, that the great trumpet shall be
blown, and they shall come which were ready to
perish in theland
of
Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall
worship the
LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

This
trumpet DOETH NOT music make! One note!

7782.
showphar, shophar, sho-far´; from 8231 in the original sense
of incising; a cornet (as giving a clearsound)
or curvedhorn:--cornet,
trumpet.

The Shofar was a horn
which was tuned by the
priest to ONE NOTE: no one could cut holes in it and therefore it could
not MAKE MUSIC. Hear the Sounds.

We
learn from the
Mishna and the Talmud that in the Hellenistic period noimprovements or modifications that might affect
the tone were permitted:
no gold-plating
of its interior, no
plugging of holes, no alteration of its length (the minimum
permissible length of a ritually approved horn was 3 handbreadths); the
shofar tone was
to be preserved unaltered. Nor was the process of
steaming or boiling
permitted.

Here
is the literal meaning of
PSALMOS!

Apart
from its liturgical
uses
the shofar was closely connected with magical
symbolism. Its blast
destroyed the walls of Jericho, and in the Dead Sea scrolls we read
that during battlesshofar blowers soundeda powerful
war
cry to instill fear into the heartsof the enemy while priests blew the sixtrumpets of killing.Historically the shofar has also served in a number of popular
usages: it was sounded during
rites tobring
rain,
in the event of
local disasters, and so on. In our
times its liturgical use is
restricted to New
Year
(Rosh Hashanah)
and the Day
of
Atonement (Yom Kippur).
See PhotosHERE.

Psalmoi
toxôndoes not mean "sing and play a
harp"
WITH a bow. Psalmoi just means pluck
or twang a bow.

Phoebus'lyre, that singswith you, [165]
would not protect you from my bow. Alter your wings'
course; go to the Delian lake; if you do not obey, you will steep
your lovely melody in blood. [170]
Ah, ah! what is this new bird that approaches; you will not place under
the cornice a straw-built nest for your children, will you? My
singing[psalmoi] bow will
keep you off. Will you not obey?

"Only
in Ps 150:3
is it (shophar) mentioned with most of the other really musical
instruments. Hence, we must conclude that the function of the shophar
was to make
noise--be
it of earthly
or of eschatological character--but not to make music. After the destruction
of the temple and the general
banishment of all instrumental music, the shophar alone survived, just because it
was
not
a musical
instrument."(International Dictionary of the Bible, p. 473,
Abingdon).

Lynn
Anderson etal:Isa
30:29 And you will sing as on the night you celebrate a holyfestival; your hearts will rejoice as when
people go up with flutes to
the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.
Isa 30:32 Every stroke the LORD lays on them with his
punishing rod
will be to the music of tambourines and harps, as he fights them in
battle with the blows of his arm.

The
Jews went in musical processions to
Jerusalem
specificially to worship Molech as they had at Tyre where the king is
called "the singing and harp playing prostitute in the garden of Eden."
Isaiah 30 defines FOR WHOM God comes in judgment.
He speaks
of the Assyrians, Egyptians and includes Judah where they burned
children just before and just after the PROOF TEXT fo musical
instruments in a Plague Stopping rituals where Levitical Warrior
Musicians could NOT enter or come close to the holy things EVEN TO
CLEAN OUT THE GARBAGE.

THE PROPHECY

And
thou shalt pollute the plated
idols,
and thou shalt grind
to powder(like
"melody" in Greek) the gilt
ones,
and shalt
scatter them as the water of
a removed woman,
and thou
shalt thrust
them forth as dung.
Isaiah 30:22 LXX

But
when the people were put
forth,
he went in, and
took her by the hand, and the maid arose. Matthew 9:25

PUT FORTH: EkballôI.
to
throw or cast out of a place, 2. to cast out of a
place, banish VI. to
produce, of women IV. Dem.; to drive an actor
from the
stage,
Lat. explodere, I. to drive
out or off
by clapping; orig. a scenic
word said of a player, to hiss or hoot off, explode
him.

And
the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun,
and the light of the sun shall be seven
fold in the day when the
Lord shall heal the breach of his people, and shall heal the
pain of thy wound. Isaiah 30:26
LXX

Behold,
the name of the Lord
comes after a long time, burning
wrath;
the word of
his lips is with glory, a wordfull of anger,
and the anger
of his
wrath shall devour as
fire.
Isaiah 30:27 LXX

And
his breath, as rushing water in a
valley, reach reach as far as
the neck, and be
divided, to confound the nations for their vain error; error also shall
pursue them and overtake them.
Isaiah 30:28 LXX

The
Septuagint translates Verse 29
consistent with the rest of the chapter.

Must
ye always
rejoice, and go into my holy places
continually, as they
that keep
a
feast?
and must ye go
with apipe,as those
that rejoice into the mountain of the Lord, to the
God of
Israel Isaiah 30:29 LXX

and
the Lord shall make his
glorious voice to be heard and the wrath
of his arm[Messiah the
Intercessor], to make a display with
wrath
and anger and devouring
flame:
he shall lighten
terribly, and his wrath shall
be as water and violent hail. Isaiah 30:30 LXX

For
by the voice of the Lord
the Assyrians shall be overcome, even
by
the stroke where with he
shall smite them. Isaiah 30:31
LXX

And
it shall happen to him from
every side, that they from whom their hope of
assistance was, in
which he trusted, themselves shall
war against him in turn
with drumsand with harp.Isaiah 30:32 LXX

For
thou shalt be required
before thy time: has it been prepared for thee also
to reign? nay,
God has prepared
for
thee
a deep
trench, wood piled fire
and much wood: the wrath of
the
Lord shall be as a trenchkindled
with sulphur.
Isaiah 30:33 LXX

THE
BURNING OF HARPS AND HARPISTS

It
is said that there were tens of thousands of harps and other musical
instruments stored on the temple grounds. The Levites,
according
to Josephus, had gotten permission to "wear linen garments" and restore
the priestly musicians: this would give glory to the KING. They got
permission but Josephus attributes the failure of the nation to these
Levites and they would do it again.

Probably
almost all of the harpists and harps were burned up at topheth as a
type of hell and rested on a bed of maggots. The Jews are still looking
for these harps in order to restart the sacrificial system in a rebuilt
temple. We know where the harps went!

Lynn
Anderson etal:Jer
31:4 I will build you up again and you will be rebuilt, O
Virgin
Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out to dance
with the joyful.

You see,
there IS a difference between what you do in the vintage
festivals and what you do in the SYNAGOGUES which outlawed loud vocal
and instrumental rejoicing;

Again I will
build
thee, and thou
shalt be
built, O virgin of
Israel:..........thou
shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets,..........and shalt go
forth in the dances
of them that make
merry. Jer. 31:4

Of
Miriam: The
timbrel "was a
typical women's instrument. It
is mentioned seven times in the OT; thus it must have been very
popular. Although it occurs in the Psalter and in religious hymns
(Exod 15; Jer. 31:4), it was not permitted in the temple. Its
function in the Bible was restricted to secular or religious
frolicking, cultic dances, or processions (e. g., II Sam. 6:5; 1I
Chr. 13:4; Ps. 68:25). Its absence in the temple ritual was possible due
to the strong femalesymbolism,
which always accompanied the tambourine, and which made
its use so popular at all fertility rites." (Interpreter's
Dictionary of the Bible, p. 474,
Abingdon).

And
it came to pass, as soon as
he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses anger waxed
hot, and he cast the tables
out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount. Ex.32:19

And
see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come
out to dance in dances,
then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every
man his wife of the daughters
of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. Jud.21:21

Is
not this David, of whom they sang one
to another in dances, saying,
Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands? 1S.29:5

Upon this I awaked,
and
beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me. Jer. 31:26

All just a dream?

Lynn
Anderson etal:Ezek 33:2 "Son of man, speak to
your countrymen and say to them: 'When
I bring the sword against a land, and the people of
the land choose one
of their men and make him their watchman,
Ezek 33:3 and he sees the sword coming
against the land and blows the trumpet to warn the people,
Ezek 33:4 then if anyone hears the trumpet
but does
not take warning
and the sword comes and takes his life,
his blood
will be on his own
head.
Ezek 33:5 Since he heard the sound of the trumpet
but did
not take warning, his blood will be on his own head.
If he had
taken warning, he
would have savedhimself.
Ezek 33:6 But if the watchman sees the
sword coming
and does
not blow
the trumpet to warn the people
and the
sword comes and takes the life
of one of them,
that man
will be taken away because of his sin,
but I
will hold the watchmanaccountable
for his blood.'

Do we have to comment? The trumpet
was ordained to WARN and was reserved
for that purpose. When they blew the trumpet to assemble the
synagogue they DID NOT make an alarm meaning "vocal and instrumental
rejoicing." If some turkey uses the fire alarm or Tornado warning bell
to PLAY MUSIC we put such creatures into jail.

People are trying to MAKE MUSIC insteading of seeing ALL musical sounds
as WARNINGS.Matt. 15:7 Ye hypocrites,
well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,

Hypokrites
(g5273) hoop-ok-ree-tace'; from
5271; an actor under an assumed character (stage-player), i.e. (fig.)
a dissembler ("hypocrite"): - hypocrite.

Rhêtor-ikos ,
ê, on, oratorical, hê rhêtorikê (sc. technê). These
are the craftsmen
lumped with
the singers, musicians and "grinder" doing merchandise in the house
of prayer. Rev. 18:22

LATIN:Canto I. Neutr., to produce
melodious sounds (by the voice or an instrument), to sound, sing, play
(class. in prose and poetry;
to sing and play while the actor
accompanies the song with gestures or dancing,
C. Transf., of instruments, to sound, resound: 2. Of the singing
pronunciation of an orator, to declaim
in a singing tone, to sing

Ezek
33:30 Also, thou son of
man, the children of thypeople
still are talking against
theeby
the walls and in the doors of the houses, and

speak
one to another, every one to his brother,
saying,Come,
I pray you, and hearwhat
is the word that comethforth
from the
Lord.

Ezek
33:31 And they come unto
thee as the people
cometh,
and they
sit before thee as my
people,
and they
hear thy words,but
they will not do
them:
for with their mouth they shew much
love,but
their heart goeth
after their covetousness.

GOD'S
PICTURE OF VAIN RELIGION, ENDORSED
BY JESUS

Ezek
33:32 And, lo, thou art
unto them as a very
lovely songof
one that hath a pleasant
voice,and
can play well on an
instrument:for
they hear thy words,but
they do them not.

Lynn
Anderson etal:Hosea
8:1 "Put the trumpet to your lips!
An eagle is over the house of
the LORD because the people have broken my covenant and rebelled
against my law.

Fact: when you hear the trumpet sound
which was NOT a musical instrument you may know that you have broken
God's Covenant. The musical instrument always means that people have
refused to hear the Word of God. The final TRUMPET sound will
be
the SORCERERS invading the church little bits at a time like when you
boil a frog.
When you hear theINSTRUMENTS in the house it is a MARK that God has
cast you off.

Hos
8:1 Set the trumpet to thy mouth.
He shall
come as an eagle against the
house of the LORD,
because
they have transgressed my covenant,
and
trespassed against my law.

Hos
8:4 They have set up kings, but not
by me: they have made princes, and I
knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols,
that they may be cut off.

Compare
Amos:
Hos 8:5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine
anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to
innocency?
Hos 8:6 For from Israel was it also: the
workman
made it; therefore it is notGod:
but the calf of Samaria shall be broken
in pieces.

If you make the songs, it is not from
God.

Lynn
Anderson etal:Joel
2:1 Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm
on my holy hill.
Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day
of the LORD is
coming. It is close at hand--

Joel
2:1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound
an
alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land
tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh,
for it is nigh at hand;

Psallo (g5567) psal'-lo; prob. strengthened from psao,
(to rub
or touch
the surface;
comp. 5597); to twitch or twang, i.e.
to play on a stringed
instrument (celebrate the divine worship with music and accompanying
odes): - make melody, sing (psalms)

Psocho (g5597) pso'-kho; prol.
from the same
base as 5567; to triturate,
i.e. (by anal.) to rub
out (kernels from husks with
the fingers or hand): - rub.

Joel
2:2 A day of darkness and of gloominess,
a day of clouds and
of thickdarkness, as the
morning spread upon the
mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath
not been
ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years
of many generations.

Joel
2:3 A fire devoureth before
them; and behind them a flame burneth:
the land is as the garden of Eden before them,
and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape
them.

Lynn
Anderson etal:Zep
1:15 That day will be a day of wrath, a
day of distress and anguish, a
day of trouble and ruin, a day
of darkness and gloom, a day
of clouds and blackness,
Zep 1:16 a day of trumpet and battlecry
against the fortified cities
and against the corner towers.

The
trumpet was given to send warnings: it was excluded for the syngaogue
or church in the wilderness. Therefore it would be foolish to use the
trumpet when there is now war or no signal that the camp was being
removed from its present location. None of the proof text
fail to
prove that in the church the noise is a sign of God's wrath or doom. No
one tries to justify the use of such machines in the ekklesia without
intentionally failing to tell the while truth:

Zep
1:12 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search
Jerusalem
with candles, and punish the
men that are settled on their lees: that
say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.

Zep
1:13 Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a
desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and
they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.

Zep
1:14 The great day of the LORD is near, it is near,
and hasteth greatly,
even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly

Zep
1:15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble
and distress, a day of wasteness
and desolation, a day of darkness
and gloominess, a day of clouds
and thick darkness,

Zep
1:16 A day of the trumpet and alarm
against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.

Zep
1:17 And I will bring distress
upon men, that they shall walk like blind
men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and
their blood shall
be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.

Lynn
Anderson etal:Rev 18:21-22
“Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a
large millstone and threw it into the sea, and said: "With such violence
the great city of Babylon will be thrown down,
never to be
found again. The music of harpists and musicians,
flute players and trumpeters, will never be heard
in you again. No workman of any trade
will ever be found in you again. The sound of a millstone will never be
heard in you again.”

Revelation
is a warning message for those with a right to know: this is a MARK of
the invasion of the church by a swarm of locusts which in John's area
were known as the muses or musical worship team under Apollyon or
Abaddon. When you see or hear these signs then you know that
the
feminist mother of harlots has begun to "rule over you" as women and
children.

Wisd 19.13 - The punishments did not come
upon the
sinners
without
prior signs in
the violence
of thunder,[Rev 14]
for they
justly suffered because of their wickedacts;
for they
practiced a more bitter hatred of strangers.

Amos
3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people
not be afraid? shall there be evil in a
city, and the LORD hath not done it?

Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth
his secret unto his servants
the prophets.

Revelation
17 defines the Mother
of Harlots who is the feminist goddess
worshipped by all musical people: you did not MAKE
MUSIC to a Patriarchal god. Therefore, the music is the MARKgreat distress
The Mother of Harlots USES the "lusted after fruits."
These are the same "baskets of summer fruits" in Amos which implicates
the musicians as dogs or maleprostitutes.

John would
have been familiar with Hesoid who recognizes the MUSES as HARLOTS

(ll. 1-25) From the Heliconian Muses let us
begin to sing,
who hold the great
and holy mount of Helicon, and dance on soft feet about
the deep-blue spring and the altar of the almighty son of Cronos,
and, when they have washed their tender bodies in Permessus or in the
Horse's Spring or Olmeius, make their fair, lovely dances upon
highest Helicon and move with vigorous feet.

Thence they arise
and go abroad by
night, veiled in
thick mist, and utter their song with lovely
voice, praising
Zeus the aegis-holder and queenly Hera of Argos who walks on golden
sandals and the daughter of Zeus the aegis-holder bright-eyed Athene,
and Phoebus Apollo, and Artemis who delights
in arrows, and
Poseidon the
earth-holder who shakes the earth, and reverend
Themis and
quick-glancing (coquettishness) Aphrodite, and Hebe with
the crown of gold, and fair Dione, Leto, Iapetus, and Cronos the crafty counsellor, Eos and
great Helius
and bright Selene, Earth too, and
great Oceanus, and dark Night, and the holy race of all the other
deathless ones that are for ever. And one day they taught Hesiod
glorious song while he was shepherding his lambs under holy Helicon,
and this word first the goddesses said to me -- the Muses of Olympus,
daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis:

(ll. 26-28) `Shepherds of the wilderness, wretched
things of shame,
mere
bellies,............we know how to speak many false things as
though they
were true;............but we know, when we will, to utter true
things.'

(ll. 29-35)
So said the ready-voiced
daughters of great Zeus, and they plucked and gave me a rod,
a shoot of sturdy
laurel,
a
marvellous thing,
and breathed
into me a divine voice
to celebrate things that shall
be
and things there were
aforetime;
and they bade me sing of the race of the blessed gods that are
eternally,but ever to sing
of themselves both first and last.Skêptron
,II. staff or baton,
esp. as the badge of command, sceptre:
in Hom. borne by kings and chiefs, and transmitted from father to
son, by speakers, who on rising to speak received it from the
herald, by priests and soothsayers

Revelation 18 implicates
the rhetoricians, singers and instrument
players and calls the SORCERERS who had deceived the whole world.
The Muses were the dirtyadulteresses as
Apollyon's musical
worship team. John is pointing directly to Delphi
just up the coast
from Corinth and close to Patmos. John lumps sorcerers
(religious musicians) and dogs as doomed to hell.The craftsmen is the
word TECHNE which includes all of the PERFORMINGreligionists
Jesus called Hypocriites and John
called Sorcerers as does
all Greek musical terms. In the Greek theater which was
always
religious this points to "theater builders and stage managers." In
these end times it is CRAFTY to steal the church house of widows and
turn it into a "theater for holy entertainment" as they boast.

The end like the beginning will be marked by Mother Goddess led by
women. Therefore, let's back up to Revealtion 17:

Rev 17:1 And there
came one of the seven angels which
had the
seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will
show unto
thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth
upon many waters:

Rev
17:2
With whom the kings of the earth have committed
fornication,
and the
inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

Rev
17:3 So
he carried me away in the spirit into the
wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured
beast, full of
names of blasphemy,
having seven heads and ten horns.

Rev
17:4 And
the woman was arrayed in purple
and scarlet colour,
and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls,
having a golden
cup in her
hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:

Rev 17:5 And
upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON
THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS
OF THE EARTH.

When
Paul warned about the rising up to PLAY at Mount Sinai in the musical
idolatry of the trinity, in 1 Cor 10 he identifies it as DEMON
WORSHIP. There "is not tradition other than that demigods
intruduced musical instruments" to SECUCE people.

Rev
18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven,
having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2 And
he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying,Babylon
the great is fallen,
is fallen, and is become thehabitation
of devils,
and the hold of everyfoul spirit,
and a cage of every unclean
and hateful bird.
[seed
pickers]Rev
18:14 And the fruits [faithful
dogs Ph 3]that thy soul lusted
after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and
goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.

However, all of these habitations
of devils
will cease and the musicators will cease and Jesus will visit for the
last time and pick up the Candlestick of "the seven spirits of God" all
related to teaching knowledge--as it has been taught.

And
the voice of harpers,
and musicians,
and of pipers,
and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at
all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be
found any more in thee; and the sound
of a millstone
shall be heard no more at all in thee; Rev 18:22

Rev
18:23 And the light of a candleshall
shine no more at all in thee; and
the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at
all in thee: for thy merchants
were the great men of the earth; for
by thy sorceries were all nations deceived

Lynn
Anderson etal:The
Oxford Companion to Music. Oxford
University Press. London, 1956. p. 541. The Synagogue
system came
about ‘so that those who cannot take part more than the statutory
three
times a year in the worship of the Temple at Jerusalem may have their regular
and frequent local worship.

These festivals were not called WORSHIPSERVICES:
only warrior aged males were forced to muster. Older males, children
and females were not forced to attend and most probably did not because
it was like summer camp: one of the tithes could be turned into money
and used to by wine and strong drink for themselves and the Levite
ministers--who were always poor.

After
the fall from grace by musical idolatry
at Mount Sinai the Spirit of Christ defined the Holy Convocation or
synagogue as a school of the Bible which excluded vocal or instrumental
rejoicing. See the facts about the Synagogue for the spiritual people
which QUARANTINED them from the regulat sabbatic or Dionysus worship
with wine, women and music.

"The
Pharisees asserted that
God could and should be worshiped even away
from the Temple
and outside
Jerusalem. To the
Pharisees, worship consisted not
in bloody sacrifices--

the
practice of the
Temple priests--but in prayer
and in the study
of
God's law.

That
is what the agents of change want to shut down: that is always the
motive for music. The Phraisees were bad but originally had pure
motives but the hassidim had been superceded by false Jews.

Hence
the Pharisees fostered
the synagogue as an institution of religious worship, outside and
separate from the Temple. The synagogue may thus be considered a
Pharisaic institution since the Pharisees developed it, raised it to
high eminence, and gave it a central place in Jewish religious life. (Britannica Members)

Why there was never
any rationale for music?

Aristotle: Melody
Deceives: "Poets
also make use of
this in inventing words, as a
melody "without strings" or "without
the lyre"; for they
employ epithets from negations, a course which is approved in
proportional metaphors..

The
form
of diction should be
neither metrical nor without rhythm.

If
it is metrical, it lacks
persuasiveness, for it appears artificial, and at the same time it
distracts
the hearer's attention,
since it sets him on the watch for the recurrence
of such and such
a cadence..

According
to Philo, the gods of the pagans exploit this weakness
of men. For the sake of a better effect, and with
the intention of more easily cheating
their devotes,
that they have set
their lies to melodies, rhythms and meters.."
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The
Qahal as the major word for the synagogue was set up in the wildernes
for rest FROM religion, reading and discussing the Word of God: Jesus
did NOT change that. This excluded vocal and instrumental
rejoicing because only simple simons would want to make musical noise
when you meet for what the Campbells called "A School of Christ."

Lynn
Anderson etal:Every village has its synagogue
and a ritual is laid down which, after the destruction of Jerusalem
under the Roman rule in A.D. 70, is to develop the vocal part
of the Jewish musical traditions
in all the Mediterranean lands and, at the greater dispersal that
followed, to carry it into every part of the civilized world.
But a
dispersed Jewry was a sorrowingJewry,
and in the synagogues that were
now to be found almost everywhere in the known world an abstention from
instrumental music served as a lasting reminder of the glories of the Templeworship of the
past, which should, it was confidently believed,
after a period of patient waiting some day be renewed.’

By direct
command, practice from the
wilderness onward, the practice of Jesus, the command through the word
"ekklesia," the practices of Paul, the commands of Paul and the
universal practice of the PRE-apostate church "there was never any
praise service in the synagogue" The sacrificial system of which
"noise" was exorcism was restricted to Jerusalem, inside the walls, at
but never IN the temple. The Jews ceased the use of music
because it would have been a sin to use it after the sacrificial system
was about dead long before the time of Christ.

No, the synagogue was by definition NOT
a place to do musical rejoicing
because THAT was what lost them their nation and temple. No
synagogue added an instrument until 1815. It is true that
cantillation or chanting developed into something very elaborate. We
would still not call it singing in the "churchy sense."

None of the Bible is metrical and CANNOT be sung in a tunful sense if
your life depended on it.

These conventionalities of pitch
result in an elementary form of song,
and thus became early known as "singing to speech" (
accentus). But
when a larger audience is addressed the assistance of a sing-song
utterance in marking this accent or prosody, and
rendering the precise
interdependence of the successive words
unmistakable, has been
recognized by all who have ever had to speak in the open air or in a
large building, and has been from the earliest ages adopted for the
public recitation of sacred texts. Among Jews the desire to read the
Scriptures in the manner described in Neh. viii. 8 has from time
immemorial resulted in the use of some sort of musical declamation.
This mode of recitation, depending not upon the rhythm and sequence of
the sounds chanted, but upon the rhythm and sequence of the syllables
to which they are chanted, is known as cantillation.

"The
description of the
synagogue service above noted the role of the hazzan, or cantor. It is he who reads the service and
declaims the
scriptural lessons
to
certain set musical modes that vary with the season and occasion.

In
the 19th century in Western
Europe much of the
traditional music was either discarded
or re-worked under the
influence of western forms
and styles. In
addition the
pipe-organ was
introduced and was the centre
of stormy controversy.

The synagogue
or church in the wilderness was
to QUARANTINE the
civillians FROM the pagan sacrificial systems. The Sabbath was an evil
day and rituals were held and this derived from Babylon along with the
tithe. The citizens met in thes synagogues which always
existed
but which was the only "religious" institution after the RETURN.
The synagogue was devoted to the WORD and prayer and "never
had a
praise service." When the temple was destroyed there was no
rationale and not legal to use instrumental music. They continued with
the psalms which were chanted or spoken in cantillation
as defined by PSALMOS. Only in time did
the changing get more embellished and
no one dared use an organ until the year 1815.

Lynn
Anderson etal:Zondervan, p.562 – “The Jews refused to play the
lyre (kinnor) during the BabylonianExile.
They suspended their kinnorim on the willows;
how
could they ‘sing the
Lord’s song in a strange land?’ (Ps. 137:4). The kinnor was gay,
and
when the prophets of old admonished the people, they threatened that
the kinnor, the symbol of joy and happiness, would be silenced unless
the people repented from their sins.”

Those involved with the sacrificial system knew that it was not legal
to play sacrificial music outside of Canaan. The Willow Tree
also has
symbolid association with Orpheus: it was Orpheus
and the Lesbian women
who invented THRESKIA or IMpure religion. The added
tune or rhythm but
"tunefulness" did not really exist. The symbol of Orpheus to
which the Jews had been abandoned at Mount Sinai because of Musical
Worship was usually meant when they spoke of Lord. This also
connects with Dionysus and Zeus in the Abomination of Desolation which
proves that this MUSICAL worship was always the MARK of sexual and
homosexual JOY. They made TOO MUCH JOY with wine women and
song
and lost everything that had any meaning to them. However,
they
were exiled BECAUSE of this idolatry
and the tiny remmant were largely
cured so that there was NO musical worship connected with Jehovah.

Jesus warned that truth had been hidden in parables
from the foundation
of the world. This was to fool the fools like the Scribes and Pharisees
whom Jesus identified as hypocrites: rhetoricians,
singers and musicians. The connections between the
abandoned
Jews and the Greeks and Egyptians is clear.

Pausanias, Greece.
[6]
Turning our gaze again to
the lower part of the picture we see, next after Patroclus, Orpheus
sitting on what seems to be a sort of hill; he grasps with his left
hand a harp, and with his right he touches a willow. It is the branches
that he touches, and he is leaning against the tree. The grove seems to
be that of Persephone, where grow, as Homer thought,2
black poplars and willows. The appearance of Orpheus is Greek, and
neither his garb nor his head-gear is Thracian.

[7]
On the other side of the willow-tree Promedon is leaning against it.
Some there are who think that the name Promedon is as it were a poetic
invention of Polygnotus; others have said that Promedon
was a Greek who was fond of
listening to all kinds of music, especially to the singing of
Orpheus.

During
their captivity the Jews
were really "going home." Remember that it was Jubal, Jabal,
Tubal-Cain and Naamah
who introduced the Babylonian form of magic and music.

"Some of the psalms
express a tribalistic hatred of foreign
powers; even the beautiful laments of the exiles 'by the waters of
Babylon,' for example, concludes with the assurance that the daughter
of Babylon will be destroyed. 'Happy shall he be, that taketh and
dasheth the little ones against the stones.'

"But in nearly a third
of the collection the 'enemies' whose death
the psalmist so confidently prays for and anticipates are not Gentile
nations, but indivitual Jews who do not share the religious
conviction of the Hasidim (Pharisees). In the words of Psalm 58, 'the
righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash
his feet in the blood of the wicked. So that a man shall say, Verily
there is reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in
the earth." (Parkes, Henry Bamford, Gods and Men The Origins of
Western Culture, p. 134, Knopf)

Naamah
'Lilith' is usually derived from the Babylonian-Assyrian word
'lilitu,' 'a female demon, or wind-spirit' -- one of a triad mentioned in Babylonian
spells. But she
appears earlier as 'Lillake' on a 2000 BC Sumerian tablet from

Ur
containing the tale of Gilgamesh and the Willow Tree.
There she is a demoness dwelling in the trunk of a willowtree
tended by the Goddess Inanna
(Anath) on the banks of the Euphrates.

Lilith
typifies the Anath-worshipping Canaanite
women, who were
permitted pre-nuptial promiscuity. Time after time the prophets
denounced Israelite women for following Canaanite
practices; at first,
apparently, with the priests'
approval --

since
their habit
of dedicating
to God the
fees
thus earned is
expressly forbidden in Deuteronomy XXIII:18.

Lilith's
flight to the Red Sea
recalls the ancient Hebrew view that water attracts demons. Tortured
and rebellious demons" also found safe harbourage in Egypt. Thus
Asmodeus, who had strangled Sarah's first six husbands, fled "to the
uttermost parts of Egypt" (Tobit VIII:3), when Tobias burned the
heart and liver of a fish on their wedding nigh.
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"The
very name Orpheus is just a synonym for Bel, the name of the great
Babylonian god, which, while
originally given to Cush, became hereditary in the line of his deified
descendants. Bel
signifies 'to mix,' as well as to confound,' and 'Orv' in Hebrew,
which in Chaldee
becomes Orph signifies also 'to mix.'

But
'Orv,' or 'Orph,' signifies
besides 'a willow-tree;' and therefore, in
exact accordance with the mystic
system, we find the symbol
of Orpheus among the Greeks to have been a willow tree.

"Since
the Babylonian
Jews
were unable to participate in the
worship of the
cultus as in former days, the exile marked an important turning-point
in their religious developmemt. Open-air meetings by the Kabar
irrigation-canal replaced gatherings in
the Temple and its precincts,

Lynn
Anderson etal:3. Since instruments were not used in the synagogues and there was no
longer a temple in which to use them, they were increasingly associated
with pagan worship and secular theater.

They were PROOFS of paganism even at Mount Sinai when they rose up to
play in musical idolatry. They are connected with paganism
(king-clergy) by the prophets by the Spirit of Christ who calls the
monarchy robbers and parasites. In the Greek world a PARASITE
was one who made loud noise during animal sacrifices.

Instruments were never used IN the Holy Place as
typical of the body or
Church of Christ. It is said that when Jesus came the Jews had no GOD
and had no TEMPLE. The temple was called HEROD'S temple and
the
priestly leadership were HIRELING and not Israelites. Even if
the
temple had stood the common people would be put OUTSIDE the gates when
the animal burning was signalled by the trumpets and NOISE of
instruments. That is why Paul says that if we want to find Jesus we
have to go OUTSIDE the massed multituted or camp and suffer reproaches
with Jesus. The "congregation" assembled for sacrificial
noise or
music was only the king, clergy and national leadership. And THEY had
been turned over to worship the starry host BECAUSE of musical idolatry
at Mount Sinai.

4.
There may have been few skilledmusicians
among the new
Christians
since it was the priests who were responsible for
developing their
skills in Temple service.

I believe the priests blew the authorized
trumpets of God: it was the Levitical Warrior Musicians who played
instruments to make a great crashing noise. Whey would they even
think about it since the culture of the synagogue outlawed both singing
and instruments and the universal mark of instruments was perverted
paganism.

The prophecy of the King of Babylon
is really pictured at Topheth which
was once the King's Music Grove where Asherah was worshipped and
infants were sacrificed to Molech with music. We are not
aware
of any of the NATIONAL Levites who were converted and they and their
harps were cause to ROT and burn up or be consumed by MAGGOTS at
Hell--just outside the city walls. Jews lament the tens of
thousands of harps which were destroyed. Maybe if God LOVED
instrumental music He might have saved one or two. No. No Bible student
can even hallucinate "making music" in the ekklesia.

The
Apostolic Constitions which may date about the year
200 but certainly reflects the general understanding of the church
assembly notes:

For He
has delivered us from the sword, and hath freed us from famine, and
sustained us; has delivered us from sickness, has preserved us from
an evil tongue. For all which things do we give Thee thanks through
Christ,

who
has given us
an articulate
voice to
confess withal,
and added to it a suitable tongue as an instrument
to modulate withal,
and a proper taste, and a
suitable touch, and a sight
for contemplation,and
the hearing of sounds, and the smelling
of vapours, and hands for work, and feet for
walking.

And all
these members dost
Thou form from a little
drop in the womb;
and after the
formation dost Thou bestow on it an immortal soul,
and producest it into the light as a rational creature,
even man.

If
one belonging to the
theatre

(1)
come, whether it be man or
woman, or charioteer, or dueller, or racer, or player of prizes, or
Olympic gamester, or one that plays on the pipe, on
the lute,
or on the harp at those
games,
or a dancing-master or an huckster,

(2)
either let them leave off
their employments, or let
them be rejected. If a
soldier come, let
him be taught to "do no
injustice, to accuse no man falsely, and to be content with his
allotted wages:"

(3)
if he submit to those
rules, let him be received; but if he refuse them, let him be
rejected. He that is guilty of sins not to be named, a sodomite, an effeminate
person, a magician, an
enchanter, an astrologer, a
diviner,
an user of magic verses, a juggler, a mountebank, one that
makes amulets, a charmer,
a soothsayer, a fortune-teller, an observer of palmistry;
he that, when he meets you, observes defects in the
eyes or feet of the birds or cats, or noises, or symbolical sounds: let these be
proved for some time,

Lynn
Anderson etal:5. The use of instruments may have been implicit
in the early fathers’ use of the word Psalm.Zondervan,
p. 564. The Psaltery –
“. . . ten-stringed, rectangular zither. To the early Church
Fathers
this psaltery was symbolic: the ten strings, the TenCommandments;
and
the four sides, the Gospels.”

Psalm
like song can be read, recited, sung or sung with an instrument.
However PSALM does not include the instrument. Because the
BOOK
of Psalms is a GREEK translation we know that they used a word
consistent with the form of music recognized in the Greek pagan rituals
which was always destructive. That is why all of the
"instrumental" Psalms have destructive or even polluted meanings
because they were "warrior chants." The Psalms are NOT metrical and
cannot be sung as the apologist plans to do which was always called
charming, enchanting or sorcery.

"The
name of psaltery entered Christian
literature in the 3rd century B.C.
translation of the Old Testament called the Septuagint where, in the Psalms, nebel was translated psalterion.
Thus,Nebuchadnezzar's
idolatrous ensembleincluded the Aramic psantria. Notice, also, that the
book of Psalms has also
become known as the Psalter (or psalterium), from the hymns sung with
thisharp. Source
http://www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us/antiqua/psaltery.htm

NEBUCHADNEZZAR the king made an image of gold, whose height was
threescore
cubits (60), and the breadth thereof
six (6)
cubits: he
set it up in the
plain of Dura(circle), in the
province of Babylon. Dan 3:1

The
Temple in Jerusalem had two of these Phallic Imagtes out front!

That
at what time ye
hear the sound of the (1) cornet, (2) flute, (3) harp, (4) sackbut,
(5) psaltery, (6) dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and
worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:
Dan 3:5

Six instruments are
named Six Times in in
Six verses.

Psaltery reminds us
of a NEW
WINESKIN religion which is made of THAT WHICH DIED OF
ITSELF:

Nebel (h5035) neh'-bel; or
nebel nay'-bel;
from 5034; a skin- bag for liquids (from
collapsing when empty);hence a
vase (as similar in shape when full); also a lyre (as having a body of
like form): - bottle, pitcher, psaltery,
vessel, viol

Lynn
Anderson etal:Whatever the reasons for
the lack of instruments in the
early church, we must hold scripture supreme over tradition.

True: and all Bible
students and historic scholars KNEW
that instruments were OUTLAWED and always associated with destructive
events and even Satan, prostitutes and Sodomites.

Justin
Martyr a.d. 110-165
And the wealthy among us help the needy; and we always keep together;
and for all thingswherewith we are
supplied, we bless the Maker of all through His Son Jesus Christ, and
through the Holy Ghost.

And on the day called Sunday, (th tou Hliou legomenh hmera.) all who
live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs
of the apostles or the writings
of the prophets are read, as
long as time permits; then, when the reader has ceased, the president
verbally instructs, and exhorts to the
imitation of these good things
.

Till I come, give attendance to (public) reading, to exhortation, to
doctrine.1Ti.4:13

Apost. Const. Then let the high priest say: It
is very meet
and fight before all things to sing an hymn to Thee, who art the true
God, who art before all beings, "from whom the whole family in heaven
and earth is named;"

Of a memorial for the dead: XLII. Let the third day of the departed be
celebrated with psalms, and
lessons, and prayers, on account of Him who
arose within the space of three days;

§19. Now thus is faith; when a man believes in God the Lord of
all, Who
made the heavens and the earth and the seas and all that is in them;
and He made Adam in His image; and He gave the Law to Moses; He sent of
His Spirit upon the prophets; He sent moreover His Christ into the
world.

Furthermore that a man should believe in the resurrection of the dead;
and should furthermore also believe in the sacrament of baptism.

This is the faith of the Church of God. And (it is necessary) that a
man should separate himself from the observance of hours and Sabbaths
and moons and seasons, and
divinations and sorceries and Chaldaeanarts
and magic, from fornication and from festivemusic,
from vain doctrines, which are
instruments of the Evil One, from the blandishment of honeyedwords,
from blasphemy and from adultery.

And that a man should not bear false witness, and that a man should not
speak with double tongue. These then are the works of the faith which
is based on the true Stone which is Christ, on Whom the whole building
is reared up.

Barton
Stone – “The past
is to be consigned to the rubbish heap upon which Christ died.”Lynn
Anderson etal:Martin Luther--1521—“Unless I am convinced
by Scripture and plain
reason--I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they
have contradicted each other--my conscience is
captive to the Word of
God.”

By
1501: "By
re-introducing public
worship, the reformers displaced virtually overnight a thousand years of high
church
ritual. The Reformation
fathers condemned the Gregorian Chant for some very telling reasons,
revealing along the way their own
evolving concepts of music.

They
objected to
the distractions of elaborate
vocal
and instrumental
music,
the dangers of overly theatrical
performances, the
unwarranted expense
of elaborate ceremonies and enormous pipe organs and the uselessness of text
unintelligible to the
common man.

"Contrasting
the high church's entrenched
musical traditions
was the simple
and
pragmatic approach of
men like Martin Luther. One of Luther's stated goals was the
restoration of true worship.

He
understood the
tremendous benefit resulting
from hearing the word of
God
and then uniting as a congregation to offer
thanksgiving in
song.

This
stress on congregational
participation in worship became a lynchpin of the Reformation.

It might come
as a surprise that the Catholic
church NEVER engaged in "congregational singing with instrumental
accompaniment." Whey they began singing of sorts in the year 373 even
when organs were imposed it was by people in high places and used by
composers and fiddled around with by the idle monks. Harmony
was
thus beginning to develop after the year 1200. The organ was
used
for preludes, interludes and recessional. It was only playing by the
professionals for entertainment which polluted the churches in the eyes
of the reformers.

Lynn
Anderson etal:V.
Heritage [a virus you caught from
your mother]

Many are concerned that we should preserve our Church of
Christ heritage.

Right off the bat this is perjorative
and intended to
dissociate people
to make them think that we DON'T use instruments because it is a
disease we caught from out ignorant parents. This is absurd:
there is nothing but universal condemnation of instrumental music as a
warning even to those "outside of church' who would fall into a trap
because the performance style is perverted and perverting. All scholars
note that when you move from SPEAK or SAY to even rhetoric you both
MARK and CAUSE effeminancy. At the time of the American
Restoration Movement none of the denominations looking for something
better used instruments and all refuted their use: Methodists and
Baptists went through the same musical sectarianism as the Church of
Christ. Furthermore, it is a fact that The Church of Christ
was
never "joined" to the Disciples who imposed instruments planning to sow
discord.

The Bible is perfectly clear and and ALL of the historic scholars
rejected instruments on the same basis they would reject dirty dancing
or brothel stalls in the temple. All of the denomonitations which
fed into the church of Christ rejected instruments: it was the
Disciples of Christ which followed the denominations after the Civil
war because they confessed that their institute could not survive
without entertainment.

Not even the Catholic churches ever engaged in "congregational singing
with organ accompaniment." The organ was EXTRA liturgy and used between
events: the organ marked preludes, interludes and recessionals. That
is, it was purely entertainment because no priest ever installed an
organ in a church.

So the heritage or traditional is about as evil a lie as possible
especially since it is intended to inflict pain and sow discord.

Most historic church had DIRECT COMMANDS and APPROVED EXAMPLES of
speaking or chanting ONLY the Biblical text. The purpose was to Teach
and Admonish one another. One would have to be mad to hallucinate music
if they understood the nature of the ekklesia which institution
excluded all but vocal instruction.

Lynn
Anderson etal:I
wholeheartedly agree! The heritage that I
received was this - that
we should be as the ‘noble Beroeans’ who ‘examined
the scriptures daily
to see if these things were so.’ Acts 17:11. The Church of
Christ
taught me to constantly be studying God’s Word. If we have
already
found all of the answers and there is no room to
come up with any
different conclusions, what is the point of study?

Because "vocal and instrumental rejoicing" was
outlawed in the synagogue or "church in the wilderness" and there was
no praise service in the synagogue, there was never a QUESTION which
needed anyonw who THINKS they have a latter day answer. The point of
study was directly commanded to "sing that which is written" and "teach
that which has been taught." You could be severely brain damaged and
never hallucinate the possibility of making noise and doing gyrations
when Jesus comes to be our.

The synagogue and later ekklesia or
church was devoted TOTALLY to reading and examining "that which is
written" as the elders "taught that which had been taught." Peter left
it as a MARK of false teachers those who did not teach that which he
and others had left for our "memory."

One good reason would be to study
the Old
Testament and especially the Prophets to understand that God totally
repudiates MUSIC of any form because it is a slick way to navigate
people where you want to go usually with the intention of bringing them
into bondage to fleece the lambs and craunch their bones. Isaiah 58
defines a TRUE Sabbath and outlaws "seeking your own pleasure or
speaking your own words." That is because to do so CLAIMS that God left
a lot of silence holes for us to fill in--and pay them too.
None
of the proof texts in this paper show that the writer has read the
CONTEXT and assuredly does not know the story line.

Lynn
Anderson etal:A willingness and
determination to followscripture,
even in the face of deeplyentrenchedtraditions,
is what the reformation and
restoration
movements were built upon.

‘Scripture alone’ became the
rallying cry of the Reformation. For the pioneers of the
Restoration
Movement, the favorite motto was: ‘In matters of faith, unity; in
matters of opinion, liberty; in all things, love.’ Only things clearly
stated in Scripture were considered matters of faith.

Even
if you were simple simon you would know that there was no music
commanded in the New Testament and it therefore could not be a matter
of faith. On the other hand, music is the MARK of people telling
God to shut up and is therefore the MARK of ANTI-biblical false
teachers.

In fact,
ALL church
fathers
demand that we use Scripture only for matters of faith and practice.
This was not invented for the Restoration Movemement. The
High
Church principle was the motto of the Disciples of Christ out of their
Methodist, Anglican, Church of England, Catholic roots.
However,
the Church of England never voted to aprove the right of the church to
IMPOSE anything not commanded by Scripture.

It would not be remotely possible to have ever studied the Bible
without knowing that the "serpent" in the garden of Eden was a "singing
and harp playing prostitute" or a musical enchanter(ess).
Revelation 17 ends with the Mother of Harlots (marked by music)
uses lusted after "fruits" as rhetoricians, singers and instrument
players.

Lynn
Anderson etal:Zwingli
(1484-1531) rejected audible music of
any kind, believing that whatever Scripture does not explicitly command
is forbidden. Since Paul, in Col. 3:16 calling us to ‘teach
and
admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing
psalms, hymns and
spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God,’ specifies ‘in
your hearts,’ it must be done silently.

The direct command was to SPEAK one
to another with the INSPIRED TEXT ONLY.
The INTERNAL act was to sing AND make melody IN the heart.
The concept
of speaking a Psalm in order to learn it took place
at church: then,
you went home and sang SILENTLY as much as you wished. Philo denied
that humans have the ability or words to praise God audibly.

None of the Bible was metrical and you could not sing ANY of it in a
tuneful sense if your life depended on it. Zwingli knew that the Psalms
would have to be RADICALLY RECOMPOSED in order to set them to Meter.
To do so was a matter of disrespect for the written Word which
had NEVER been "sung" in the modern musical sense.

Why should be be down on Zwingli for opposing the REWRITING of the
Psalms with very bad errors being inserted and NOT utterly condemn
someone for rewriting Acts just so the females and effeminates can SING?

No, that is another lie: Paul said SPEAK one to another in Psalms,
hymns and spiritual songs (inspired text) AND sing and make melody IN
THE HEART. The word SPEAK is the opposite of poetry or music and
the word ODE is the same as Hebrew Cantillation which is not TUNEFUL
but accented SPEAKING just like Paul commanded and Jesus exampled.

Lynn
Anderson etal:For this reason, Zwingli did not even allow congregational
singing. The fallacy of Zwingli’s
interpretation is apparent--how can we teach
and admonish each other with songs that we sing
silently to God?

Again,
it would not be possible to SING in a tuneful sense and obey the direct
command to speak or sing "that which is written." Zwingli was not
condemning sining the commanded text because it COULD NOT be sung. Even
when Calvin allowed some paraphrases of the Psalms to make them
metrical this would not be acceptable to MOST people who understand
that the REWRITE the Word of God.

We
can SPEAK outwardly and SING inwardly! That
is EXACTLY what Paul commanded. And you cannot SING
and SPEAK at the
same time and making melody on a harp in the heart would hurt really
bad as the word PSALLO means. Philo said the same thing because worship
is in the PLACE of the human spirit and Paul said we worship IN the
spirit as opposed to IN the flesh because there be dogs or catamites
with their old style praise singing. Because worship is what you think,
the only way to literally worship would be to fall on your face--now
try doing dirty dancing, singing and plan a "machine for doing hard
work."

Johannes
Quasten, Music and
Worship in Pagan andd Christian Antiquity, notes of Philo:

"One
cannot truly
offer thanks to God as the vast majority of men do, with externaleffects,
consecrated gifts and sacrifices..., but rather
with songs of praise and hymns--

not
so much as the audible
voice
sings,
but such as are
raised and re-echoed by the invisible
mind."

Philo
saw that the high
priest
had to lay aside his long flowing robe, set with little bells and
colorfully adorned, when he went
into the holy of holies.
This was an indication
that one must
not worship God with music and colorful array; owe should rather pour
out to him one's soul's blood and offer him one's whole spirit as
incense. For

if
the soul has
opened itself totally in word and deed and is filled with God then
the voices of the senses and all other burdensom and hateful noises
cease..

Zwingli knew
that the word SPEAK
is defined as "the opposite of poetry
or music." That is because melody
conceives to deceive:

Aristotle: Melody Deceives: "Poets also make use of
this in inventing words, as a
melody "without strings" or "without
the lyre"; for they
employ epithets from negations, a
course which is approved in proportional metaphors..

The
form
of diction should be
neither metrical nor without rhythm.

If
it is metrical, it lacks
persuasiveness, for it appears artificial, and at the same time it
distracts
the hearer's attention,
since it sets him on the watch for the recurrence
of such and such
a cadence..

According
to Philo, the gods of the pagansexploit
this weakness of men. For the sake of a better
effect, and with
the intention of more easily cheating
their devotes,
that they have set
their lies to melodies, rhythms and meters.."
Click for more.

Zwingli had a
point because the Scripture
is
NOT metrical and therefore
CANNOT be sung in a tuneful sense. That is why Calvin reluctantly
allowed the Psalms to be REWRITTEN or paraphrased to make singing
simple harmony remotely possible. So, maybe Zwingli wa against
REWRITING the Bible. Modern musical performers make no
attempt to
"sing that which is written" so there is little connection with
historical rationality. deceives and so people set their
lies to a melody and invent The Law of Giving or The Law of Singing.
The word Ode further defines PSALMOS as "in Hebrew Cantillation." The
singing marks did not denote tunefulness but ACCENT and rhythm of
SPEAKING. Several resources note that "Melody as tunefulness
belongs to the 19th century" so I SUPPOSE that their singing was not
MAKING MUSIC. Any prose devoted to a god when READ was called
singing and singing was "using the normal inflections of the human
voice."

Pindar,
Nemean Odes 7. [20] And I expect that the story of
Odysseus came to exceed
his experiences, through the sweet songs of Homer, [22] since there
is a certain solemnity in his lieswinged
artfulness,
and poetic skill deceives, seducing us with stories, and the heart of
the mass of men is blind. For if For if [25] they had been
able to see
the truth, then mighty Aias, in anger over the arms, would never have
planted in his chest the smooth sword--Aias, who was the most
powerful in battle, except for Achilles, and whom the breath of the
unswerving Zephyr conveyed in swift ships, to bring back the wife of
golden-haired Menelaus [30] from the city of Ilus. and

Lynn
Anderson etal:Luther
believed that Zwingli’s approach to Scripture turned the gospel
into a new legalism. Luther’s call to return to Scripture
supported
his greater call to return to Christ.

This means that hymn
singing is preaching,
a return of God's Word to the
people!

Luther, then,
restored singing to the church as preaching,
the speaking "to one another with psalms and hymns
and spiritual
songs" (Eph. 5:19)
so that "the Word of Christ
[might] richly dwell" in them (Col.
3:16).

Because the hymn was
regarded as a proedicatio sonora -- a resounding
sermon, it was
placed "on the same
level as the proclamation and prayers of
the pastor."
(Schalk, C., ed. Key Words in Church Music (St.
Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1978)

Consequently, the
Reformation
accorded congregational song an
autonomous place in the liturgy. It was
not simply regarded as the people's
answer to the sermon, but
instead stood side by
side with the sermon, albeit in sequential
order. (Blankenburg. W. "Der Gottdienstliche Liedgesang
der Geineinde," in Leiturgia (Kassel: Johannes Stauda-Verlag.
1961)).

The Word of
God could become
the Living Wordonly
when
it was preached, and only then could it awaken faith.
--Since music (the notes) "make the text live," God preached the
Gospel also through music.
--Both music and theology then are "bearers and interpreters of the
Word of God, being living voices of the
Gospel."

In 1523, Thomas Muntzer was the
first to replace
the clerical choir
with
congregational singing,
using virtually the same music. He translated thetext
into the vernacular--a
true beginning of the restoration of biblical psalm singing among the people. Chuck From

Lynn
Anderson etal:John Calvin (1509-1564), like Luther, stressed ‘Christalone.’
In his
effort to restore the original Christian ordinances, Calvin hoped his doctrine
of Christ might restrain the impulse toward legalisticimitation.
In discussing such things as ceremonies, he said
that the ‘church must
not be too fastidious.’ Rather, they must keep first things first, not
letting questions of form and organization occupy too large a place.

Not true: Martin Luthers "Sola Fide" was based on
"Sola Scriptura"
because you cannot have faith without Scripture. And because Scriptura
commanded baptism he said that you could not be saved withoout baptism

John Calvin called His a Restoration Movement and defended the CENI as
does the Bible and all historical theologians. For adults,
John
Calvin defined baptism just about the way Alexander Campbell did it.

Harmony of the Law -
Volume 2 by John Calvin understood that the Qahal, synagogue or church
in the wilderness OUTLAWED loud vocal and instrumental rejoicing which
was reserved for warfare or victory:

"Profanenations
also had their ceremonies, such as auguries, supplications, soothsayings, victims, because
natural reason dictated that
nothing could be engaged in successfully without Divine
assistance; but God would
have His people bound to
Him in another way,
so that, when called by the
sound of the sacred
trumpets as by a
voice from heaven,
they should assemble to holy
and pious deliberations.

The
circumstance of
the place also has the same object. The door of the
Tabernacle was to them,
as if they placed themselves in
the sight; of God.

We
will speak of the word dewm, mogned(synagogue)elsewhere. Although it signifies an
appointed time, or place, and
also an assembly of the people,
I prefer translating it
convention,
because God there in a solemn manner,
as if beforeHis sacred tribunal,
called the people
to
witness, or,
according
to appointment, proceeded to make a covenant with them.

If
you
could not CALL the synagogue with instruments then how could you REST,
read and rehearse the Word of God when people sing and play instruments:

A
difference is to be observed in this respect
between his people under the Old and under the New Testament; for now
that Christ has appeared, and the church has reached full age,

it
were only to bury
the light of the gospel
should we introduce
the
shadows of a departeddispensation.

From
this
it
appears that the Papists, as I shall have occasion to show elsewhere,
in employing instrumental
music
cannot be said so much to imitate
the practice of God's ancient people as to

Psalm
78: it in a sense less and absurd
manner,
exhibiting a silly
delight in that worship
of the Old
Testament which was figurative and terminated with
the gospel." (On Ps.
xcii. 1.)

"Were
any one to ask why the
Apostle speaks with so little respect and even with contempt of Sacraments
divinely instituted, and
extenuates their efficacy? This he
does, because
he
separates them from Christ;
and we know that when
viewed in themselves they are
but beggarly
elements, as Paul
calls
them. (Gal. 4: 9.)

Because
the music in connection with animalsacrifices[a
curse] under the Law
were part of a training or disciplinary system, John Calvin
understands the difference
between the Old Law and the New Covenant

Then
Calvin notes what the
Catholics confess: that it was not really a borrowing from the
sacrificial system but from the world of entertainment
from all pagans:

"From
this it
appears that the Papists, as I shall have occasion to show elsewhere,
in employing instrumental
music

cannot
be said so
much to imitate the practice of God's ancient
people as to ape it in a senseless
and absurd manner,
exhibiting a silly
delight
in that worship of theOld Testamentwhich was figurative and
terminated
with the gospel." (Psalm 92:1)

Lynn
Anderson etal:Alexander
Campbell called for Christians to “reduce to practice that
simple original form of Christianity, expressly exhibited upon the
sacred page; without attempting to inculcate
anything of human
authority, of private opinion, or inventions of men, as having any
place in the constitution, faith, or worship, of the Christian Church,
or anything as a matter of Christian faith or duty, for which there can
not be expressly produced a ‘Thus saith the Lord,’ either in
express
terms or by approved precedent.”

And everyone knows that there is no command, example or inference for
music in the Bible or most of church history. The point is that you
cannot IMPOSE a practice on the church unless it is absolutely required
to carry out the purpose of the church.

The Campbell's defined church as "a school of Christ"
and "worship" as reading and musing the Word of God.
They repudiated instrumental music
and Alexander refused to preach in a church until
they silenced the
organ and organists. That means that if Jesus has not
COMMANDED
something necessary to carry out the school of the Bible then others
have no right to IMPOSE something unless they can prove that it is
commanded and necessary.

"Music exerts a mysterious
charm upon man--it takes captive the citadel of life--carries him out of himself, and leads him where it will. The shrillfife and the rattlingdrum, inspire the
soldier just about to enter into battle, with a zeal and daring which
no hardship can overcome, and no danger intimidate, and
causes him to rush
headlong into the thickest of the combat,
regardless of
consequences.

If martial music thus inspires the worshipers of Mars, will sacred music do less for the humble followers
of the meek and lowly Jesus--the worshipers of the true and living
God? No!

"It will not. It will inspire
them, too, with zeal and courage, and impel them on to resist--not
flesh and blood with instruments of death, but principalities and
powers--spiritual wickedness in high places, with the armor of God
and the sword of the Spirit.

Lynn Anderson defends the worship of MARS but Alexander Campbell
repudiated it simply by stating the case for instruments (restoration
of paganism) and then repudiates it:

The
argument drawn
from the Psalms in favor of instrumental music,is exceedingly apposite
to the Roman
Catholic, English Protestant, and Scotch
Presbyterian churches,
and even to the Methodist communities.Their
churches having
all the world in
them--that is, all the fleshly progeny of all the communicants, and being founded on the Jewish
pattern of things--baptism being given to all
born into the world of these politico-ecclesiastic
communities--

I
wonder not, then, that an organ, a fiddle,
or a Jews-harp,
should be requisite to stir
up their
carnal hearts, and work
into ecstasy
their animal souls,

else "hosannahs languish on
their tongues, and their
devotions die."
And that all persons who have no spiritual
discernment, taste, or relish for their spiritual meditations,
consolations and sympathies of renewed hears, should call for such
aid, is but natural.

Pure
water from the flinty rock has no
attractions for the mere toper or wine-bibber. A little alcohol,
or genuine Cognac brandy, or good old Madeira, is essential to the
beverage to make it truly refreshing.

So
to those who have
no real devotion or spirituality in
them,
and whose animal nature flags
under the oppression of church service, I think with Mr. G., that
instrumental music would be not only a desideratum, but an essential
prerequisite to fire up
their souls to even animal
devotion.

But
I presume, to all
spiritually-minded Christians, such aids would be as a cow bell in a
concert.

Lynn
Anderson etal:The
Stone movement amounted far more to a rejection of historictraditions
than to a positive reconstruction
of primitive Christian
practices. Their emphasis was Christian character and
Christian
freedom.

The only positive in agreement with the Church of Christ was Stone's
defense of using the Bible for all of our faith and practices.
However, he honored "union" over any Biblical doctrine.

The Stone Movement
had nothing in common with the
Restoration movement. He held nothing in common with
Alexander
Campbell except the authority of Scripture. No Christian
church
would now return to the movement they sected out in 1927.
Here is
one of the practices imported into the Christian churches which flowed
out of the Methodists, Church of England and back to the Catholic
church. Click for the Shouting Methodists
added as an ACT of worship.

Lynn
Anderson etal:Benjamin
Franklin (1872)—“The Lord is not attracted by
imposing temples, worldly show, nor fine entertainments.”
Franklin was
offended by the exorbitant cost of the newly built Central Christian
Church in Cincinnati, with its stained glass window and $8000 pipe
organ. This put a bad taste
in his mouth toward expensiveinstruments.

No, he said it because INSTRUMENTS
especially
ORGANS are in bad taste in a peaceable church assembling for quiet
study and meditation. The cost just nailed dow the fact that
attracting the masses was the ONLY object.

Ben
Franklin January, 1860:"IF
any one had told us, fortyyears
ago, that
we would live to see the day when those professing
to be Christians;
who claim the Holy Scriptures as their onlyrule
of faith and practice; those
under the command, and who profess to appreciate the
meaning of the command, to "observe all things whatever I have
commanded you," would bring any instrument
of music into a worshipingassembly,
and use it there in worship, we should have repelled
the
idea as an idledream. But this
only shows how little we know of what
men would do; or how little we saw of the power or the adversary
to subvert the purest
principles, to deceive the hearts of the simple,
to undermine the very foundation of all piety, and
turn the very
worship of God itself into an attraction for the
people of the world,
an entertainment, or amusement.

It appears never
to occur to the multitudes who
throng the assemblies to hear instruments, sweet voices
and artistic
melodies, that there is no worship in it, or,
at least, divine
worship. All that can be heard
in a theater,
in a museum, or less godly places, where there is certainly no
worship.

There
is no worship in music, in
itself. There is power in
it, enchantment [sorcery
says John Rev 18:23],
but as easily associated with vice as virtue,
with cruelty
as
with beneficence, with corruption as purity. We
find music where
there are no
moral
qualities,
either good or bad--a
mere secular
entertainment. We
listen to it, and admire it for
its own
sake,
its beauty, its delightful
strains, its enrapturing sounds, its melodies, and
the pleasing
sensations it produces
within us.

But
there is no worship in this. It
is simply secular, having neither moral
nor immoral qualities in it.
We
listen to a fine performer to see how he can perform,and
admire
the
performance, as artistic, dramatic,
and elegant,and
give him the praise due a good performer.

But
there is nothing [412]
religious in it. There is not a moral idea in
it; it has no moral character--there is nothing
spiritual in it;
it has no spiritual character--there is nothing
religious about
it; it has no religious character.

Lynn
Anderson etal:T. B. Larimore (1843-1929)--never addressed dividing issues such as
instrumental music and missionary societies. He viewed them
as
‘untaught questions among us.’ Scripture did not address
them, he
said; and, though he held his own ‘opinions or preferences,’ he did not
feel it his duty to preach or write about them. “I am as apt
to be
wrong as my brother. . . neither of us is infallible.”

Larimore
preaching
for a church already divided over instruments would hardly takesides
when he saw the
more urgent need to preach the gospel to convert
the people: especially
those so unchristlike to deliberately sow discord just so they could
hear Nellie PERFORM.

Burnette Writes: Allen says that one
time Larimore went to a church to help them with
the organ

Many things lead me to believe that divisions and bickering
are a good
sign that we're getting in the way of the gospel being preached and
shown to the world. I could be doing much better in this.

The city churches know very well how to settle the pastor question, and
stop the division over that issue. Just send the hired preacher out to
preach the gospel, which is his scriptural duty, and restore the elders
to their Bible functions. But will they do it? Prof. T. B. Larimore
once held a meeting that continued five months. At
the last
sermon there were five confessions, and he said the meeting closed "too
soon." He wants to hold a meeting (before he dies) that shall continue
one year. He is only seventy-two.issue
(the musical instrument) and instead of talking about
being pro or against organs, he preached the gospel
for 22 weeks. After
he left, they ended up splittinganyway and
many blamedhimfor
it,
despite the many conversions because of the gospel.

Lynn
Anderson etal:John
Smith in 1832, “Let us, then, my brethren, be no longer
Campbellites, or Stonites, New Lights or Old Lights, or any other kind
of lights, but let us come to the Bible, and to the Bible alone, as the
only book in the world that can give us all the light we need.”

They
met on New Year's Day, 1832, and continued in session four days.
"Raccoon" John Smith was selected from the Campbell
group to set forth
the New Testament grounds of unity, and B.W. Stone represented the
"ChristianChurch." The meeting
resulted in the uniting of these two
groups. "Raccoon" John Smith was my grandfather. May the present
meeting on this occasion have the same happy results. It will have the
same results if all have the same spirit that actuated there, for we
all have the same New Testament.That agreement to disagree ceased
with the missionary society in 1849.

"But an
amalgamation of
sects is not such a union as Christ prayed for and
God enjoins. To
agree to be one upon any system of human inventions
would be contrary
to his will, and could never be a blessing to the church or the world;
therefore, the only union practicable or desirable must be based
on the
word of God as the only rule of faith and practice...

"I
have the more
cheerfully resolved on this course, because the gospel is a system of
facts, commands, and promises, and no deduction or inference from them,
however logical or true, forms any part of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
No heaven is promised to those who hold them, and no hell is threatened
to those who deny them. They do not constitute, singly or together, an
item of the ancient and apostolicgospel. While
there is but one faith,
there may be ten thousand opinions; and, hence, if
Christians are ever
to be one, they must be one in faith, and not in opinion. When certain
subjects arise, even in conversation or social discussion, about which
there is a contrariety of opinion and sensitiveness of feeling, speak
of them in the words of the Scripture, and no offense will be
given and
no pride of doctrine will be encouraged. We may even come, in the end,
by thus speaking the same things, to think the same things.

"For several
years past
I have stood pledged to meet the religious world,
or any part of it, on
the ancient gospel and order of things as presented in the words
of the
Book. This is the foundation on which Christians once stood,
and on it
they can, and ought to, stand again.

From this I
cannot depart to meet
any man, or set of men, in the wide world. While, for the sake of peace
and Christian union, I have long since waived the public maintenance of
any speculation I may hold, yet no one gospel fact, commandment, or
promise will I surrender for the world" (Life of Elder
John Smith, pages 452-454.)

JohnSmith was one of those who proposed
to UNIFY the Disciples of
Christ and what we call The Church of Christ. This proves that they were
not of the same roots even then as Alexander
Campbell knew. They agreed
on "unity" but ONLY among those who attended the meeting. This was
rejected by most of the Church of Christ congregations. At it
best the "unity" existed only in a few agreeing to meet in the same
building and NOT discuss any doctrinal issue. When these few
were
invated by the Organ that had nothing ot do with The Church of Christ.
When the 1849 Missionary Society from a converted Baptist was proposed
that mad even evangelical cooperation impossible. When the organ was
imposed as SECTARIANISM the effort to work together ceased.
The
Disciples always sought to seduce The Church of Christ even counting
them in 1906 which the Census man knew to be a lie. The Christian
Church is the only group which SECTED OUT of the Disciples beginning in
1927.

Yet
Brother Clubb would have us believe
that Alexander Campbell was not only president, but
leader of the
society. Certainly the society brethren kept Mr. Campbell president of
the society--not so much for his counsel and advice, but for the
influence and magic of his name.--John T. Lewis.] Boys and women there
cast votes, and rushed the party papers through, while men, like John
Smith, hung their heads in shame. For this act no justification can be
pleaded. It is a stain upon the records of the society which it will
take long years to efface.

The Church of
Christ at this time was no
closer to the Disciples than to the Baptists.

Lynn
Anderson etal:Throughout
church history, instrumental music has been a topic of
fierce debate. Those who oppose it have made it a test
of fellowship.
Those who support it do not generally deem it worthy
of causing divisions, and often have bowed
to the opposition
for the sake of
unity.

No, that's a lie: those who IMPOSED instruments into a peaceable church
made it a test of fellowship!

No one gave any Biblical defences until the
Disciples discovered "psallo" in about 1878.

The onlyreason it is debated
is because latter day people are willing
to kiss off many of their owners so that the "musical crowd" can find
"acceptance in the mainstream."

In fact, those who INTRODUCED instruments destroyedfellowship
knowing
that they were sowing discord. However, this is something that went on
primarily among the Disciples as the instrumentalists took over
churches often known as the Christian church. If the above
statement were true they would never have become a musical sect and
they want unity based only on one's affirmation that they are right. I
would like to see any bowing since the debates have been instigated by
instrumentalists attempting to lead away non-instrumental churches.

Men like McGarvey was not allowed to reject instruments in his own
church because HE would be "sowing discord." Then as now they pretty
much said "get over it or get out."

1898 --Braden vs. Warlick debate

Lynn
Anderson etal:1900
--Calhoun vs. Kurfees in series of articles. Calhoun defended
instrumental music. M.C. Kurfees responded.
Kurfees suggested that he
had no objections to the instrument in the place of worship
if it were
only seen like a bouquet of
flowers.

Again, I need to tell you that all of Tom Burgess' proof texts are of
older men seducing young men.

Kurfees repudiated all of the false arguments which began only in 1837
when the disciples discovered the word PSALLO. However, not
even
their scholarly source would agree with them. Tom
Burgess has tried to refute Kurfess with poor results.
The troubling part of O.E.Payne and Tom Burgess collection of proof
texts is that all of the older males PLUCKING were seducing young men
for the "act" of sodomy.

In
that hour Jesus rejoiced
in spirit,
and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord
of heaven and earth, that thou
hast
hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast
revealed them
unto babes:
even so, Father;
for so it
seemed good in thy sight. Lu.10:21

There is NO connection
between psallo (melody) and music. Because
psallo is PRIMARILY a shooting with an arrow to hit the literal heart,
and because "hymns" impact the heart or feelings, "shooting out hymns"
was a metaphor and you "twang" the heart strings.

The
bowstring touch'd her
breast, so strong she drew;

Whizzing
in air the fatal
arrow flew.

At
once thetwanging
bow and soundingdart

The
traitor heard, and felt
the pointwithin
his heart.

Thy
scarlet-tinctured foot? or from my bow

The
lyre of Phoebus [Apollo, Apollyon] to
thy notes attuned

Will
not protect thee; farther stretch thy
wings;

Go,
wanton, skim along the Delian lake,

Or
wilt thou steep
thy melody
in blood.

Look,
what strange bird comes onwards;
wouldst thou fix

Beneath
the battlements thy straw-built
nest?

My
singing
bow shall
drive thee hence; begone,

Or
to the banks of Alpheus, gulfy stream,
grace

Or
to the Isthmian grove; there hatch thy
young;

Plautus, CurculioCAPPADOX
My spleen
is killing me, my reins
are in torment, my lungs
are being torn asunder, my liver
is being tortured, my heart-strings are
giving way, all my intestines
are in pain.

Hecuba Alas! a dreadful trial is near, it
seems, [230] full of mourning, rich in tears. Yes, I too escaped death
where death had been my due, and Zeus did not destroy me but is still
preserving my life, that I may witness in my misery fresh sorrows
surpassing all before. But if the bond may ask the free of things that
do not GRIEVE
them or WRENCH
their heart-strings, you
ought to speak in answer to my
questions and I ought to hear what you have to say.

When there
was only one instrumental church in
Nashville (as I remember
it) they ORGANIZED A Unity Organization. The began by sending out
copies of Payne's book to all of the preachers of the Church of Christ
with a note to return it to the new society which consisted apparently
of one congregation: I have one of those copies with the request for
return. Payn does not prove that PSALLO ever meang more than
"a
noise made by plucking." It includes ONLY THE FINGERS and
excludes a plectron or PICK. So, at best you could not even associate
psallo with a flute, trumpet, organ, piano or guitar picked.
The
word is firstly a WARFARE word denoting Apollo as the "father of
twanging bows to send a singing arrow into your literal heart, the
father of musical harmony, the father of homosexual worship, the father
of thieves and liars. He is the Apollyon in Revelation.

The second major use is the polluted red rope used to drive and MARK
those who loitered in the marketplace around the singing boys and girls
INTO the ekklesia for verbal instruction only. Therefore, the PSALLO
word MARKS anyone who went into the ekklesia as a bad person who could
not participate.

Psallo at not time or place ever meant to "play a harp." You
have
to define WHAT is to be plucked: it miight be the hairs of the young
boy used as "minister" for the older male. You have to say
play
or pluck THEN say what is to be played or plucked--WITH YOUR BARE
FINGERS ONLY.

Lynn
Anderson etal:1923 --Boswell vs. Hardeman

The effort to seduce a few preachers
with the Payne book TRAPPED the
instrumentalists into a debate they did not want. They picked
the
BEST of the crop but one immediately feels pity for Boswell when
Hardeman begins to quote REAL scholarship.

Psallo NEVER had any musical connection: it simply
means to pluck
something with your fingers but never with a plectrum: no piano, organ,
flute or drum because you cannot PLUCK them with your fingers to make a
SOUND. One PLUCKS bow strings in the first instance. One
stretches the polluted rope to MARK those who dallied around the
singing boys and girls and were late going to the ekklesia for vocal
instruction only. One can pluck a lyre or you can pluck one's hair and
you can shoot out hymns.

Lynn
Anderson etal:J.S.
Lamar—1880’s--was amazed that some of the leaders could have been
so petty and trivial in their concerns, as if Christ had died
to
prevent the formation of societies and to keeporgans
out of churches.

We MIGHT say that leaders were petty and admittedly mercinary when they
IMPOSED instruments which were rejected by ALL of the groups which
swarmed into the Church of Christ.

"To Lamar goes the credit for
phrasing the 'guilt
clause' which became a
cardinal refrain of the organ
apologists. The organ
was in the churches to stay. The next move was to fasten 'guilt' upon any person or
church who would
commit one of the 'seven
deadly sins' by
dividing the church over the organ."
Rejecting the Law of Expedience by the Instrumentalists, John
T. Lewis has the following to say:But the moment we abandon this we will be at sea, without compass or
rudder and our ship will be driven by the merciless blasts of the
headwinds of sectarianism in the d rect on of the port of Rome; and in
this state of case we may well haul down our colors and seek
recognition in "courts ecclesiastic." We will need the sympathy of such
courts, then. It is no matter of astonishment that, when the foregoing
principle was enunciated, such a thoughtful man as Andrew Munro should
make the following statement: "If we adopt that as a basis, then there
is an end of infant baptism." I
beg leave to make the following respectful suggestion to Brother
J. S. Lamar:

"If we adhere to that as a basis, then there is
an end of instrumental
we
must adhere to that, or else the "reformation is a failure."
This brings us to the main point had in view in the preceding essays.
That singing as worship is a divine appointment, is
abundantly clear, from the following Scriptures: "What is it, then? I
will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also.
I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding
also." (1 Cot. 14: 15.) "And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess;
but be filled with the spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and
hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to
the Lord." (Eph. 5: 18, 19.) "By him therefore let us offer the
sacrifice of praise music in the worship.

With Hayden's reply to
Grubbs, W. K. Pendleton, editor of the Harbinger, closes the
discussion, or rather called off Brother Hayden and turns Brother J.
S. Lamar loose on Brother Grubbs.

Lynn
Anderson etal:As Leroy Garrett says, “Our sin has been in violating
the principles of
our own heritage: making an opinion
or a preferred method a test of fellowship.”

p. 3 “This call back to the source
of our religion--the Scriptures--was a powerful and
much-needed call.
It was, and still is, the genius of the movement in which we stand.”

“While claiming to reject all human traditions, we
have created and
perpetuated traditions all the more entrenched for being
unrecognized.
Rather than escaping tradition, we who are the heirs of Barton Stone,
Alexander Campbell, and David Lipscomb simply have failed to recognize
the traditions at work in our midst.
”

Hughes says with a
slanted view:

We
were wrong in objecting to the introduction of Missionary
Societies and instrumentalmusic in the worship of the church. "(T)he
origins of the instrumental music debate appear to lie in a struggle
over social class..." (P. 57).

That's a lie: none of the
denominations had approved of instruments and the repudiation had been
almost universal down through history. The presbyterians had a rich
body of literatature using Biblb and miniman common decency to reject
entertainmant.

We
splintered away from the real Camp-Stone Restoration
Movement.

That's a lie:
there was never any "unity" between the Church of Christ and the
Disciples of Christ. Any effort to work together on projects or meet
together ended when they began to introduce instruments into the debate
in 1851 and into the church in 1859. Scholars of the Church of Christ
rejected both the society and the organ. In 1906 the Church of
Christ refused to be counted in the missionary and organ party which
was a fully-developed denomination. The Christian churches began to
SPLINTER out from 1927 to 1971.

"The
authentic
followers of Campbell, therefore eventually
shifted their commitments from the restoration of
the ancient
church to the unity of all Christians, separate and
apart from
any concern with primitive Christianity" (p. 7).

That's a lie: And
separate and apart from the Bible as the basis of faith and practices:
Campbell refuted the use of instruments and refused to preach until the
organist was silenced in denominational buildings.

We
emerged as a separate denominational body in 1906."In 1906 the
first federal religious census lists 'Churches of
Christ' as a new denomination whose most visible characteristic was
their adamant refusal to use instrumental
music in their
worship" (p. 57).

Again that's a lie: the Church of Christ
had from the time of the introduction of the organ refused to
fellowship the ORGANS even when they were friendly with the
instrumentalists. The Church of Christ never JOINED the Disciples of
Christ denomination and they therefore could not have separated from
them. ADAMANT is pejorative but it fits the universal practice of
the Bible and most of church history.

The Church of Christ never SPLINTERED and never divided over instruments: a few buildings were stolen from under a tiny few.

Because The Church of Christ as
Methodists, Presbyterians and Baptists
had NEVER used instruments and ALL "adamantly refuse to BOW" it
continued with what it believed and knew from HISTORY for 1850 years.
Hughes seems pouty-mouth that the Church of Christ REFUSED to bow. That
means that it was NOT part of the deliberate sowing of Discord. These
are not scolars in any sense of the word.
Both of these gentlemen get their history from
historians and not from the original resources now available for the
6th grade without a Phd.

Lynn
Anderson etal:
VI.
“Safety” [i.e. cowardice]

In the 1860’s, Benjamin Franklin wrote “There is not a saint who cannot
without any violation of conscience worship without
it [instruments]. . . We can remain on safe ground. . .”

We can NOT
worship, and maintain a
good
conscience, with
the
organ.
We are certain that we can
worship acceptably without
the
organ.

This was
not cowardice but the statement of a fact and principle: We cannot
worship with YOU if you add the organ. On the other hand, you can
worship without the organ. A logical conclusion is that you are willing
to add something NOT REQUIRED and sow discord and this is the
definition of heresy or a sect.

The
friends of the organ do not
doubt this. They entertain not one doubt that they can
worship
acceptably without it. Here is something that is safe.
There is no
doubt or uncertainty about it. There is no one that has the least
doubt that we can worship acceptably without the organ.

No
one ever REJECTED instruments on the basis of fright but on sound
Biblical, historical, moral and mental-health grounds. The
musical
sectarians can be save to NOT use instruments.

This
is not just being CAUTIOUS without much conviction but SAFE GROUND is
what the Campbells tried to establish: a community meeting where ALL
can gather to carry out the ONLY role of the church whatever one's
private musical practices.

We
are perfectly aware that it is calling down
on us the disfavor
of many or the
rich,
the influential and popular;
and that, on account of it, we
are cut
off
from many amiablepeople, and can not meet
and worship with
them.

We
are perfectly aware that it is against our temporal
interests. We have not been, and are not, blind to all this,
but have it before us, and have considered it carefully, and made up
our mind to take all the consequences, and bear with meekness and
patience whatever shall come.

We
do not court these consequences, nor desire
them, but we see no way to avoid them, and maintain what we solemnly
believe to be [422] right.
We, then,
cheerfully accept the situation, and take the consequences, rather
than give up the fullest, strongest and most settled conviction of
our inmost soul.

Here,
then,
is safe ground, and here
we can allmeetand
worshipacceptably, in harmony
and without any doubt.

1.
Those who use the organ, instead of showing indifferenceabout it, push it
into
the worship, against the [429]
will and conscience of many good brethren, and compel them to
worship with it, submit
to it, or not worship with them.

This
is an utter repudiation, in that which
"speaks louder than words," of all professions of
indifference. No man can
think they look on it as a matter
of
indifference while they, with such persistence and determination,
press it into the worship.

Many
of them show more zeal in this than they
ever did to spread the gospel, or build up the kingdom of God. The
profession of indifference is without foundation, only as they wish
those opposed to it to be indifferent
enough to submit meekly,
and let them
bring it in. Their indifference never leads them to think of leaving
it off for the sake of peace.

2.
They violate the law of God in bringing a dumb
instrument into the
worship, that can notteach,
admonish, sing,
praise God, or give thanks, but confuses
the worshipers, so that they can notteach, admonish, or sing to
edification, as commanded in Scripture; or, in other words, it
prevents doing precisely what the Lord commanded. To this no
Christian, with due consideration, can submit.

3. Instead
of devout worship, in song, teachingand
admonishingone
another,
the whole affair is turned into a musical entertainment,
an attraction, for the people of the
world, and professors of religion, who have lost their taste, or
never had one, for pure, devout and spiritual worship, in spirit and
in truth, with the spirit and understanding. This is turning the
worship of God into an entertainment, an amusement, an attraction for
the people of the world, and others who have no spiritual relish. It
is a perversion of the divine worship, and
defeating the very thing
commanded to be done. Can he be guiltless who does
this? [430]

Lynn
Anderson etal:In
1902, David Lipscomb wrote “All may worship without the
organ. This is safe ground.”

But,
he was NOT just being "cautious" as implied. The Church of
Christ
made no such cowardly decision: they said that the INSTRUMENTAL
SECTARIANS
could be safe and NOT deliberately sow discord. Excluding the
organ from the Church of Christ was never based on "cowardice" but on
Bible and historical and cultural literacy. Shame! Shame! Shame!

Instruments
of Music in the Service of God
By David Lipscomb
Gospel Advocate, Vol. XLIII, No. 44 (October 31, 1901),
696.
It seems there cannot be a doubt but that the use of instrumental music
in connection with the worship of God, whether used as a part of the
worship or as an attractive accompaniment
is unauthorized by
God and violates
the oft-repeated prohibition to add nothing to,
take nothing from, the commandments of
the Lord.

It destroys the difference between the clean and
the unclean, the holy
and the unholy, counts the blood of the Son of God unclean, and
tramples under foot the authority of the Son of God. A
Christian
loyal and true to the Lord Jesus Christ cannot do this, nor in any way
countenance the setting aside the order of God by adding to or taking
from his appointments, even in the smallest matters, as washing of
hands, while forbearance and love should be exercised in showing them
the error of the way.

When the church determines to introduce a service not
required by God,
he who believes it wrong is
compelled to refuse in any way to countenance or affiliate with the
wrong.

To do so is to commit a double sin. It is
to sin against
God and their own consciences and to encourage by example others to
violate their consciences and the law of God; it is to lower the
standard of regard for right.

It is generally insisted that the peace of the congregation should not
be disturbed by as small a matter as the use of instruments.
The test of a congregation of Christ is: It recognizes God as the only
Lawgiver. It serves God alone. When it consciously
changes
the smallest appointment of God, it dethrones God
as the only Lawmaker
and ceases to be a church of God.

So it is a
false foundation to claim that
people are lacking grace and are cowards when people speak of SAFE
GROUNDS.

Probably a lot of people were at
wits end by
seeing their church family destroyed and their property turned over to
others. You don't HAVE to have instruments. You can be SAFE
without them, but one thing God hates with a terminal passion: those
who would sow discord among brothers. Can there BE any redemption?

Lynn
Anderson etal:This
concern over “safety” is disturbing for several reasons:

1. It nullifies the cross’ saving
grace. It implies that we are saved
by what we do - by being right. This may
be the root problem, of which
the issue of instrumental music is only a symptom.

Again, it is not OUR safety we are
concerned
about: we are absolutely sure that instruments are the mark of telling
Jesus Christ to "shut your face." It is certain that Psalm 41
prophesied that Judas woudl attack Jesus in a musical sense and that
the mocking of Jesus meant that the Levitical musicians drove Jesus to
the cross as the fulfilled sign of fulfilled prophesy.

Yes, we are saved by what we do: when we have "obeyed from the heart
that form of doctrine" only then does Paul in Romans 6 says BEING THEN
free from sin.

It is a fact that Psalm
41
prophesied that Judas
would try and fail to triumph over Jesus: this is what is outlawed for
the synagogue and means "vocal and instrumental rejoicing." The Levites
however musically mocked Jesus right up to the cross because they had
identified Him as Beliar or Beel-zebul: the dung god.

Titus
2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath
appeared to all men,

Titus
2:12 Teaching us that, denyingmeaning to contradict,
reject, refute
ungodlinessmeans irreverent,
impious: that will get you burned
Heb 12.
and
worldly lusts, "A
longing for that which is FORBIDDEN." Don't ring a bell?

we should
live soberly, Sound mind:
music deranges the mind.
righteously, innocent
giving NO offense.
and godly, devout or
reverent without which you get burned.
in this
present world;

Lynn
Anderson etal:
2. It implies a God who is watching,
trying to catch us doing
something wrong, putting ‘trickquestions’
on the test. Our God is a
loving Father who earnestly desires relationship
with us.

No, it is a fact that music and
especially PRAISESINGING was
the oldestprofessionand
was intended to make SURE that the gods did not fail AGAIN.
Music INSISTS that everyone had better be watching the singers,
clappers and instrument players if they want to be led into the
presence of God.

Because all musical terms speak of vile people trying to
dominate, and because God removed Grace because of musical
idolatry at Mount Sinai we are DOGMATICALLY CERTAIN that God is
watching but Paul said that we MUST worship God in reverence and Godly
fear, because God IS STILL a
consuming fire. We
do NOT call down "holy fire" because we are cowards but because we are
rational, spiritual or left-brained people who CANNOT be seduced by the
Siren's Song.

Any interest in the Bible and its background should make people AFRAID
that they are THE fallen angels sent to LIGHT THE FIRES, but they have
an agenda.

If God is
watching us we want to be CERTAIN that we are not
presuming to HELP keep Him from failure. God was
watching when Israel
rose up to play in musical idolatry: it was such a terminal sin that He
turned them over to worship the stars: that which people are so anxious
to impose again and again fall from grace.

"The
development both of
religion and of the arts
can be traced back in a continuous line to the hunting era. The group ritual of the primeval
tribesmen were the origin
not only of all
religious ceremonial, but also of the drama and of
poetry and music, while magic gave
birth to the visual arts."

"Awed
by the mysteries of his
own
spirit no less than by
those of nature, primitive man was likely to
attribute to divine
influence any abnormal emotional state, whether above or below
the usual
level. Medicinemen customarily
went into states
of trancein
which they were believed
to be in communication with
the
gods,

and
many tribes supposed lunatics and sexual deviantsto be divinely
possessed. (Parkes,
Henry Bamford,
On Gods and
Men, p. 30).

"In
ancient Mesopotamia its main purpose
appears to have been the enhancement of what was
seen as beneficial. With the sole exception of wisdom
literature,

the
core genres are panegyric in nature
(i.e.,
they praise something or someone),
and the magical
power and use of
praise
is to instill, call up, or activate the virtues presented
in the praise.

"That
praise is of the essence of hymns, for
instance, is shown by the fact that over and over again the
encomiast, the official praiser, (See Kantor, Precenter, Worship
Leader) whose task it was to sing these hymns,

closed
with the standing phrase: "O
[the name of a deity or human hero], thy praise is sweet." The same
phrase is common also at the end of myths and
epics, two further
praise genres that also belonged in the repertoire of the encomiast.

"They
praise not only in description but also
in narrative,
by recounting acts of valour done by the hero,

thus
sustaining
and enhancing
his power to do such deeds,according to the magical view.

Lynn
Anderson etal:
3.
If “safety” is the goal, isn’t it “safer” to go
with the
overwhelming abundance of scripture that supports
instruments, rather
than the silence of a portion of the text?

Safety is contrasted to recklessness: no there is not a jot or tittle
which does not associate instruments with Lucifer the singing and harp
playing prostitute, to making war, to sacrificial exorcism, to seducing
customers and "flute-player" meaning prostitute and especially if MALE
the mark of the Sodomite.
Because
we KNOW that all of the proof-texts are fabricated out of thin smoke,
ignores the context and isignorant of the story line.

Nothing
in the Old Testament has any jot or tittle to say about the Christian
Discipline. The Law was a curse imposed BECAUSE of musical idolatry.
This writer has read none of the context or story line and therefore is
flying blind into your save house.

But,
again, the SAFE GROUND is a community assembly where everyone (Romans
14) could attend although the Roman sects were all highly addicted to
music to make the gods appear. By rejecting doubtfuldisputations
which are self-centered
and argumentative,
everyone can sit down and listen to the elders "teach that which HAS
BEEN taught and we can "sing that which is written" witn one MIND and
one MOUTH.

Unfortunately, the writer has locked onto those "proof text" from the
sacrificial system which God IMPOSED on Israel as He gave them kings in
His anger to carry out the captivity and death sentence imposed BECAUSE
of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai.

It is recklessly unsafe when we MISS all of those universal
associations between instruments and Lucifer, warriors, exorcists in
sacrificial systems, prostitutes and Sodomites.We
see where we are being navigated
but it will not work: there is not
any thing in the Old Testament which does not use musical instruments
as MARKS of those who HAVE fallen from grace or are causing others to
fall from Grace. God says many times that He HATES the noise
of
instruments and animal slaugher: others have the burden to prove that
God REALLY loved them: That is why Jesus said that doctors of the Law
take away the key to knowledge.

But, God says that he HATES the sound of
INSTRUMENTS which were the MARKS that the elders
had used wine, women
and instruments to STARVE the people for loss of
the Word of God.
Isaiah 5 records the whole story. It is not
possible to
read GOD'S STORY and conclude that He loves music when each and every
instance has an evil connotation. Only if you take snippets
out of a story by someone allergic to flowers
can you assume that he WANTS you
to bring flowers into his sanitary HOUSE.
In fact, none of the
musical performers could even come CLOSE to the holythings
and never
went INTO
the type of the church: they would be executed. If God would kill
anyone who went into the type of the Church of Christ with a musical
instrument then HOW are you going to prove that in the REAL body of
Christ you can escape damnation.

Lynn
Anderson etal: VII.
“Anti-ism”

Example of development of an
“anti-ism”,
taken from Tom Burgess:
1. There is neither Scriptural authority nor precedent for
Christians to build or buy church buildings.

Then be our guest and give the money
to the poor so that it won't get
diverted. However, this is like the "God didn't command
toilet
tissue" argument because the music defender knows that this is not an
issue and has no bearing on the issue. When the Spirit OF Christ
authorized the synagogue or church in the wilderness he authorized a
place to assemble:

SYNAGOGUE Jewish Encyclopedia,
literally "
assemblage," is the term employed to denote either a congregation
of
Jews, i.e. a local circle accustomed to meet together for worship and
religious instruction, orthebuilding
in which the congregation met.
The germ of the synagogue, that is, of religious assemblages dissociated
from the ancient ritual of
the altar, may
be found in the circle of the prophets
and their disciples (see
especially Isa. viii. 16 seq.);

Isaiah 8:16 Bind up the
testimony, seal the
law among my disciples.
Isa 8:20 To the law and to the testimony:
if they speak
not according to this word,
it is
because there is no light in
them.

the school (beth
hammidrash) trained scholars, but the synagogue, where the
law was read every Sabbath
(Acts xv. 21), was the means of popular instruction. Such synagogues existed in all parts of
Judaea in the
time of Ps. Ixxiv. 8 (probably a psalm of the Persian period); in
Acts xv. 21 it appears that they had existed for many
generations " in
every
city." This held
good not only for
Palestine, but for the Dispersion; in post-Talmudic times the rule
was that a synagogue must be built wherever there were ten
Jews.

After Ezra the
synagogue began to be more organized.

Because the
historic practice and the
bylaws of most churches outlawed machines to help us worship--and pay
them too--the addition of instruments is ANTI--the
common practice. As such, that is the meaning of sectarian.

Writers from the NACC have stopped using non-instrumental
for
anyone but those who affirm that they were correct after all to sow
discord. For those who will not shut their mouth but keep teaching what
the Bible teaches they have coined theANTI-instrumental
term. That means according to Dwayne E. Dunning you can take an axe to
their roots. This has become that violent when people boast about
infiltrating and navigating a happy church to where 'WE GONNA TAKE 'EM."

You can hold SCHOOL OF THE BIBLE inside of a
house but you CANNOT hold school of the Bible with a band of noisy
children making music. I never heard of a SECTARIAN division over
meeting in a HOUSE. You probably won't deliberately drive
away
half of the owners if you decide to build a "school house."
If
this writer or Tom Burgess objects to getting in out of the rain then
they have a point.

The direct command was for the synagogue or church
in the wilderness which had HOUSES:
who needs a law to get in out of the snow? Jesus attended
HOUSE
meetings and affirmed the Synagogue but outlawed taking up collections
to the sound of the trumpet, performance praying which was preaching
and even STANDING up to preach.

Psa.
74:8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them
together: they have burned up all the synagogues of
God in the land.

Psa. 83:12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houseS
of God in possession.

Lynn
Anderson etal:2.
God gave instructions regarding the building of houses for religious
worship in the Old Testament, but
left such instruction out
of the New Testament.

But, the temple
was not a "house
of worship."Because
it was a national temple after God turned them over to worship the
starry host, it was a "house" or dwelling place of the "god."
People did not enter into the holy places and the common
people
could not come near. Not even the Levitical Warrior Musicians couldcomenear the holy things withoutgettingexecuted.

The Christian culture was not HOUSE BOUND: they went to the
forum or Agora for food and most meals were at publickitchens.
The baths were public. Many toilets were public. The gossip
was
public: one went to the marketplace. Paul taught in the
amphitheater of Tyrannus
because "that's where the people
were." If you lived in a village it was probably at a crossroads and
news was carried on these "star" routes. Fairs were set up to buy and
sell and CHURCH was almost certainly carried on at these cross-roads
places. These fair towns was where the cathedrals were built
only
because of the opportunity to collect people. Otherwise,
people
did not go beyond the neighborhood where house church could be
conducted: why would ten people withing walking distance build a
"church house?"

Since there was no church in Cenchrea, Phoebe probably
met in Corinth but ministered
at Cenchrea. She met and facilitated
transportation OUT of Greece unless they wanted to settle. In may
cultures a house is still where you go to sleep but without TV
you
were outside.
They MIGHT consider a Church House as totally incompatible
with
their understanding of church as "a school of the Bible." You went to
the ekklesia for verbal instruction. You held Bible class in a
community and decently went on: if a preacher stayed more than a few
days they got him a job or a ticket on the next donkey out of town.
There were no parasites like modern "pyramidal ministry systems"
because they would be put in jail.
Fact
is that God did not tell them to build a house for worship: Solomon
thought that God was in the Temple but then God is not WORSHIPPED in housesbuilt by humanhands.
The only worship is in the human spirit while the BODY is protected
from snow.

The
people NEVER
worshipped IN the Temple.

A house does not diminish the ability to be a SCHOOL OF THE BIBLE:
music absolutely destroys it.Click
if you believe the false
teachers that the synagogue was not directly
commanded as a Time-Place-Agenda assembly

Lynn
Anderson etal:3.
History reveals that Christians in Apostolic times did not
build special church buildings.

Jesus endorsed the synagogue which was both an asembly (for education only) and a house.

As a matter of fact, the driven purpose was not
build permanent houses: the direct command for ALL evangelists is to
GO, preach the gospel and then move on. Others spread the
gospel
from hosue to house because you can NEVER sprad the gospel in a
mega-cathedral. The poor priests who called themselves The
Church
of Christ organized SCHOOLS and hospitals because you cannot DO CHURCH
WORK in a building. However, for those who fleece the people
to
build mega-temples it just doesn't matter much, does it?

Acts
15:21 For Moses of old time hath in every city
them that
preach him,
being read
in the synagogues every sabbath
day.

2Cor. 3:14 But their minds were blinded:
for until
this day remaineth the same vail untaken away
in the reading
of the oldtestament;
which
vail is done away in Christ.

Lynn
Anderson etal:6.
The New Testament commands Christians to build up a spiritualhouse
(the church) and not a material house. Since the New
Testament
specifies the kind of house that is to be built up, those who build up
a material house are building up another kind of house; therefore, it’s
an addition and not an aid.

Paul
EXCLUDED self-pleasure which includes music and all
of the hypocriticarts which have only entertainment value.
He
commanded that the use one MIND and one MOUTH to edify or educate. That
is the COMMANDED way to BUILD UP THE BODY. Here is where those who
destroy COMFORT ZONES violate Romans 14 where Paul defines the Roman
sectarians all of whom afflicted the weak with music to fleece them:

Rom
14:1 HIM that
is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.

Acts
24:12 And they neither found me in the
temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the
people, neither in the synagogues, nor in
the city:

Rom
14:19 Let us therefore
follow after the things...........
which
make for peace, and ........... things
wherewith one may
edify another.

Those people Anderson calls cowards are really quoting Romans 14:19. We
KNOW that we can have peace without adding adding "machines for doing
hard work and making war" but we know that YOU destroy the peace if you
insist on adding instruments which have their fundamental beginning in
MAKING WAR.
Only after the Discomforters have
been silenced can you begin to edify or build the HOUSE.

Cycle
One

Cycle Two

WE
then that are strong ought to bear the
infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Romans 15:1

And
again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with
his people. Romans
15:10

Romans
15:2 Let every one
of us
please his neighbour for his good to edification.

For
even Christ
pleased not himself;
but, as it is written,
The reproaches of them
that reproached thee fell on me. Romans 15:3

And
again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles;
and laud him, all ye people.
Romans 15:11

For
whatsoever things were writtenaforetime were written for our learning
(teaching), that
we through
patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. Romans 15:4

And
again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root
of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him
shall the Gentiles trust. Romans 15:12

Now the
God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ
Jesus: Romans 15:5

Now the
God of hope fill you (not with wine but)
with all joy and peace in believing, that ye
may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy
Ghost. Romans 15:13

That ye
may with one
mind and one mouthglorify (tell of His
works) God, even the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 15:6

And I
myself also am persuaded of you, my
brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all
knowledge, able
also to admonish one another. Romans 15:14

Now I
say that Jesus Christ was a minister (deacon) of the circumcision
for the truth of God, to confirm
the promises made
unto the fathers:
Romans 15:8

Nevertheless,
brethren, I have written the more boldly unto
you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace
that is given to
me of God. Romans
15:15

And
that the Gentilesmight
glorifyGod for his mercy; as it is written, For
this cause I will

(2)
that the offering (bloodless sacrifice) up of the
Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
Romans 15:16

(1) confess to thee among the
Gentiles, and

(1)
That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the
Gentiles,

(2) sing unto thy name. Romans
15:9

ministering
the gospel
of God,
that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being
sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

For
I will not dare to speak of any of those things
which Christ hath not
wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed. Rom
15:18

Through
mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God;
so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully
preached the
gospel of Christ.
Rom 15:19

The churches would still be meeting
in authorized
synagogues if the Jews had not chased us out. Jerusalem was
filled with synagogues and some were quite extensive buildings. Jesus
met with them to stand up to read and then decently sit down: must have
had CHAIRS ;-)

Lynn
Anderson etal:
VIII. Gifts

1 Pet 4:10 “Each one should use whatever gift
he has received to serveothers,
faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms.” NIV

I haven't found rhetorician or singer or musician as a GIFT from God.
All known evidence says that it was Lucifer
the singing and harp
playing prostitute who brought wind, string and percussion instruments
when she/he was "cast as profane out of heaven." The very meaning of a
hypocrite defined by Jesus pointing to Isaiah and Ezekiel was a
"speaker, singer and instrument player."

Here is where you are prohibited from using self-composed
erotic-praise hymns and changing SPEAK to SING:

If
any manSPEAK
let him speak as the oracles
of God;

Paul
told the Romans, Ephesians and Colossians to SPEAK "that which is
written."

He
commanded the elders to teach that which HAD BEEN taught: God does not
NEED any talent that would make him in need of US and would make our
worship LEGALISTIC.

if
any manMINISTER
let him do it as of the ability
which God giveth:

that
God in all
things may be glorified
through Jesus Christ,
to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 1 Pet. 4:11

Now you have a
direct command NOT to speak your own words or make up songs which
history knows intends to deceive.

Minister
is:

Diakoneo (g1247)
dee-ak-on-eh'-o; from 1249; to
be an attendant, i.e. wait upon (menially or as a host, friend or [fig.]
teacher); techn. to act as a Chr.
deacon: - (ad-) minister (unto), serve,
use the office of a deacon.

But
let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief,
or as an evildoer, or
as a busybody
in
other mens matters. 1 Pet. 4:15

Many
of them also which used
curious
arts
brought their
books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the
price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. Ac.19:19

This
sounds like a Family Life Minister to make sure you have some WORK to
do on Friday night and to use up all of your SURPLUS money and then be
nosey to make sure that everyone is DISCIPLED like all good cults.

Hierourgiareligious service,
worship, sacrifice,
Hdt. [from hierourgos]Aphair-eo
, Ion. apaireô what
Paul outlaws for the synagogue in Revelation 15CantoI. Neutr., to
produce melodious
sounds (by the voice or an instrument), to sound, sing, play III. In the lang. of
religion,
as v. n. or a., to use enchantments, charms, incantations, to
enchant, to charm, cantata
Luna, exorcised by
magic, of instruments, to
sound, resound

That is why the "music" by the Levites under the curse of the sacrificial system performed EXORCISM sounds never called music.

That is why especially women who usurp and lead the "boys" into making
music are identified as witches or sorcerers (Rev 18). The
Familiar Spirit of the Witch of Endor was a hollow sounding "wine skin"
identical to the nebel (harp) or the sounding bronze in 1 Cor. 13.

Cicero 2X.[21]
There is a fourth class, various, promiscuous and turbulent [destroying
your comfort zone]; who indeed are now overwhelmed; who will never
recover
themselves

There is a last class, last not only in number but
in the sort of men
and in their way of life; the especial body-guard of Catiline, of his
levying; yes, the friends of his embraces and of his bosom; whom you
see with carefully combed hair, glossy, beardless, or with well-trimmed
beards; with tunics with sleeves, or reaching to the ankles; clothed
with veils, not with robes; all the industry of whose life, all the
labour of whose watchfulness, is expended in suppers lasting till
daybreak.

With
the improvement of the arts of music and dancing, the distinction of
spectators and performers arose;
it became more a matter
of
art
to sing and dance in
the chorus;

paid
performers were employed; and at
last the duties of this branch of worship devolved upon one person, selected by the State
to be their representative,
who defrayed all the expenses which were incurred on the different
occasions.

CantoC.
Transf., of instruments,
to
sound, resound: 2. Of an
actor, to represent a
part, to act, cantata
Luna, exorcised by
magic, B. To call forth,
produce by charmsIII.
In the lang. of
religion, as v. n. or a., to use
enchantments, charms, incantations,
to enchant,

Pindar,
Nemean Odes 7. [20] And I expect that the story of
Odysseus came to exceed
his experiences, through the sweet songs of Homer, [22] since there
is a certain solemnity in his lieswinged
artfulness,
and poetic skill deceives, seducing us with stories, and the heart of
the mass of men is blind and

Aristotle:
Melody Deceives: "Poets
also make use of
this in inventing words, as a melody "without strings" or "without the
lyre"; for they
employ epithets from negations, a
course which is approved in proportional metaphors..

The
form of diction should be neither metrical nor without
rhythm.

If
it is metrical, it lacks
persuasiveness,
for it appears
artificial, and at
the same time it distracts
the hearer's attention, since it sets him on
the watch for the recurrence of such and such
a cadence..

According
to Philo, the gods of the pagans exploit this weakness
of men. For the sake of a better effect, and with
the intention of more easily cheating
their devotes,
that they have set
their lies to melodies, rhythms and meters.."
Click for more.

Wouldn't
God send them to a church which believed that musical entertainment is
acceptable? Would He really send someone knowing that it would sow
discord and drive people out?

The week still has 168 hours and the world is filled with public places
to do musical performances. I think this is a bit of a
pressure
point which has no connection to the clear Biblical connection with
performers and bad people. Why FORCE yourself and your
preferences onto others who will be overwhelmingly offended even if
they do not break and run for their lives. The meaning of
CHURCH
is to consider the weak or infirm which includes a large percentage on
anti-depressants just to be able to make it through even "a capella"
music. Music was always known to abrade or grind one into bits: the
word PSALLO is derived from a word meaning to "grind one into a fine
powder." The same base word for SOP. All of history knows
that
the "thrill" produced by music and especially harmony produces the "dog
barks at midnight" and the "water drips" which are there but not
audible. Nevertheless, any comples music does emotional and even
physical harm to people.

I can tell you that most of us hear male "churchy singing" as
screechy-screamy and not as pleasant. The Hebrews performed in FALSETTO
for effect. The Catholic church used falsetto singers until they
discovered the A Capella meaning the Castratos and used them in the
Sistine where instruments were unlawful. History knows of
this
singing that "only females and the effeminate fall into it." It
destroys the masculine role as feminist hermeneutics CLAINS to do with
"small acts of treachery."

Lynn
Anderson etal:
I have
shared my beliefs and
desires. Now let me share my
intentions. I trust your wisdom. You are
men of faith and integrity
who listen carefully to the Spirit’s leading.
If you decide that any
changes would be detrimental to the body at this time, I will respect
that. I will pour my energies into making a cappella
worship magnified and praised
to the fullest, and that every seeker would become a fully devoted
follower and worshipper.

The name of The Holy Spirit is
"Jesus Christ the
Righteous." He HAS spoken and said "My words are Spirit and they are
Life." Peter MARKED those who do not teach that which has been taught
and validated by supernatural signs in a face-to-face encounter with
God. Therefore, the "spirit person" DOES NOT speak to people:
it
is simply people's own selfish desire. Miriam was slapped
with a
dose of leprosy for claiming that God spoke to her and through her: God
said that he reveales face to face or mouth to mouth and those who
claim to hear voices are claiming to be God Incarnates

Until now, instruments
have been allowed at
Oak Hills as long as they are not a part
of a regular ‘worship’
service.

And THAT is how we navigate
instruments in over the heads of the congregation and
probably most of the elders who vote with their feet. If
history says anything, someone highly intentional set out to sow
discord for their own selfish purposes. Once used in "non
worship" activities people are slowly manipulated into accepting
something they began thinking wrong: the fact that their minds are
changed for them does not make the evil into something good. You can
make a sober person into a dead drunk by beginning to use small doses
of alcohol: in fact, music is known as a highly addictive drug inducer.

In the book of Job defining the FERTILITY RITUALS of the Mother of Babylon's whores:

Mark me, and be astonished,
and lay your
hand upon your mouth Job 21:5 .
Even
when I
remember I am afraid,
and trembling taketh hold on my
flesh. Job 21:6 Wherefore
do the wicked live,
become old, yea, are mighty in power? Job 21:7Their seed is established in
their sight with
them, and their offspring before their eyes. Job 21:8Their houses are safe from
fear, neither is
the rod of God upon them. Job
21:9Their bull gendereth, and
faileth not; their
cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. Job 21:10They send forth their little
ones like a
flock, and their children dance. Job 21:11They take the timbrel
and harp, and rejoice at the sound of theorgan.
Job 21:12They spend their days in
wealth, and
in
a moment go down to
the grave. Job
21:13

Isa 5:14 Therefore hell hath enlarged
herself, and opened her mouth without measure:
and their
glory, and
their multitude, and their pomp, and he that
rejoiceth,
shall descend into it.

"Now if this was the case in
Job's day, much more must it
have been the case at the
earlier period when the Mysteries were instituted. It was a matter,
therefore, of necessity, if idolatry were to be brought in, and
especially such foul idolatry as the Babylonian
system contained
in its bosom, that it should be done stealthily and in secret.

*
It will be seen
by-and-by what cogent reason there was, in point of fact, for the profoundestsecrecy in thematter.
See Chapter II

Even though
introduced by the hand of power,
it might have produced a revulsion, and violent
attempts might have been made by the uncorrupted portion
of mankind
to put it
down; and at all
events,if it
had
appeared at once in all its hideousness, it would
have alarmed the
consciences of men, and defeated the very object in view.

From
the ingredients avowedly used, and from
the nature of others not avowed, but certainly used, there can be no
doubt that they were of an intoxicatingnature;

and
till the aspirants had come
under their power,till their understandings had been
dimmed,
and their passions
excited by the medicated
draught,
they were not duly
prepared for what they
were either to hear
or to see.

[289e]For not only do these speech-writers themselves, when I am
in their company, impress me
as prodigiously clever, Cleinias, but their art itself seems
so exalted as to be
almost inspired.
However, this is not
surprising; for it is a part of the sorcerer's art,

The
SORCERER'S art is the charming of
snakes and tarantulas and SCORPIONS
and other beasts
and diseases, while the other is just the charming
and soothing of JURIES, assemblies, crowds, and so forth.
Or does it strike you
differently? I asked. [The other being lyre-makers in
regard to their lyres]

"music
and gymnastic (must) be preserved in their
original form, and no innovation made. They must do their utmost to
maintain them intact. And when anyone says that mankind must
regard.
The newest song which
the singers have, (Odyssey)...
they will be afraid
that he may be praising, not some new songs, but a new kind of song;
and this ought not to be praised, orconceived to be the meaning of the
poet;
for any musical innovation is full of
danger in the whole
State, and ought to be prohibited.
"So
Damon tells me, and I can
quite believe him; he says that when modes of music change,
the fundamentallaws of
the State always
change
with them..."

"Then,"
I said, "our
guardians must lay the foundations of their fortress in
music?""Yes,"
I replied, in the
form of
amusement: and at first sight it always appears
harmless'." (The
Great Dialogs, Plato, Classic edition, p.
312)

DAMON "Rise, Lucifer, and, heralding the light,
bring in the genial day, while I make moan
fooled by vain
passion
for a faithless bride,
for Nysa, and with this my dying breath
call on the gods, though little it bestead--
the gods who heard her vows and heeded not.
'Begin, my flute,
with me Maenalian
lays.'

One of the words in the beginning of
stealing church houses of widows
was PRAXIS: if we can get people in masses and let
them EXPERIENCE a
mass demonstration they will be hooked.

Hitler
said it best:
"But thecommunity
of the great
demonstrationnot only strengthens the
individual, it also unites
and helps to create an esprit
decorps.
The man who is exposed to grave tribulations,
as the first advocate of a new doctrine in his factory or workshop,

absolutely
needs
that strengthening which lies in the conviction of being a member
and fighter in a great comprehensive body.

And
he obtains an impression of
this body for the first time in the mass
demonstration. When from
his little workshop or big factory,
in
which he feels very small,

he
steps for the
first time into a mass
meeting and has
thousands and thousands of people of the same opinions around him,
when,as a
SEEKER,
(Als
Suchender.' A Wagnerian phrase, which Hitler
was apparently determined to
use at all costs) he is swept away
by three or four
thousand others into the mighty effect of suggestive
intoxication and enthusiasm,

Once we
have imposed instruments on the Sabbath (Sabbazianism, Dionysus, new
wineskin worship.) then WHY cannot we go all the way. Isn't the venom
of deception just dripping?

Lynn
Anderson etal:
There
are two dangerous problems with this. First,
it
implies a separation of worship from the rest of our lives. Secondly,
it relegates instrumental praise to the arena of Saturday night
entertainment.
I would never want to lose our rich and unique a cappella
heritage.

Ourheritage is one of those
"affect images." If you can convince people that not using machine
worship or performers is just some virus you caught
from your ignorantancestors.
Pretty shabby since there is no historical period they can find which
does NOT repudiate letting the entertainers invade the quiet school of
the Bible. All of the groups which flowed into the American Restoration
Movement rejected instruments and even the Catholics had never engaged
in "congregational singing with instrumental accompaniment."

ONE ---"Introduce
the idea as a way to reach an agreed upon goal."
TWO ---"Introduce the
idea as an addition, not a replacement."FIVE ---"Sow seeds of creative discontent."

This is the boiling the frog
trick! The assembly is called ekklesia or
synagogue or school of the
Bible. Paul's ONLY worship words means to give heed to the Words of
God. Paul writes how he conducted the assemblies and gave a direct
command to Timothy:

That's it: singing
as an ACT of
worship was not forced in and sowed discord until about the year 373.
Furthermore, Jesus said that worship is in the PLACE of the
human
spirit as opposed to the PLACES of temples. The ACT is IN
TRUTH
which means to be taught by the Words of Christ.Paul said that they
worshipped IN THE SPIRIT as opposed to IN
THE FLESH
because outside there were the DOGS or cynics: they were Catamites
who
identified a partner by their 'old style praise singing.'
There
is no literary exception to the RULE that religious music involved
prostitutes or homosexuals.John was IN THE SPIRIT
on the Lord's Day and that is the only PLACE where God accepts your
worship.The Change-Agentry
system is to slowly introduce things as "additions"
and never as changes. Everyone knows that the intention is to make the
whole ritual into a musical idol worship.John identified the
Mother of Harlots who used "lusted after fruits" as
slick speakers, singers and instrument players. John called the
sorcerers who HAD deceived the whole world.

Then I contended with
the nobles of Judah,
and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath
day? Neh
13:17

Did not your fathers
thus, and did not our
God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring
more wrath upon Israel by profaning the
sabbath. Neh 13:18

Lynn
Anderson etal:
I hope that
the maindiet
of our Sunday a.m.
assemblies remains a cappella. Freedom
for the occasional instruments would be
appropriate, for example with a solo or
with a piano or guitarunderlining
a prayer.

Why would you make noise during
prayer when you
know that you force the brain into a dither trying to keep track of
both events. Isn't this part of the gradualism: if we cannot
get
our totalway we will compromise
by forcing you to endure something you
consider sinful and destructive. In time, additional changes will be
made and the goal will be to replace both the pracher and the elders as
the Biblical deacons have already been fired.

Conflict
resolution intends to force you to meet the others and let them get
half of their way. However, the historic church has considered music as
"worship" evil because it is a way to bypass the logical (spiritual)
nature and seduce by appealing to the emotions.

I don't think you have to be too smart to see this is a playground
trick to get your marbles, one at a time. Everyone knows that even
while promisign little bits of instrumental music off in a corner the
DRIVEN PURPOSE is to confiscate the entire "worship" service to bleed
off worship from God to the performers.

Lynn
Anderson etal:
Allowing Peak
of the Week
to be instrumental, at least part
of the time, would offer some balance.
Currently, those who prefer only a cappella music
have their tastes
satisfied at both the Sunday and Wednesday services. Those
who delight
in instruments are passed off to the left-over ‘off’
times.

No,
not an inch: the Bible
defines music as sinful and derived from Satan called the singing and
harp playing prostitute in the garden of Eden. If the
congregation was founded as a church of Christ and people's wealth has
been collected, those intending to divert the funds to another purpose
are criminals and will be punished. The historic and
universal
view is that MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS in the face of a Holy God come to be
our Teacher is in many Biblical examples seen as beyond redemption.

Minimum
ethics would force a divisive person to leave a church in peace and go
find or found another church. This is really a morality issue
and
it is not pretty.

Therefore, because the founding principle is that instrumental music is
sinful on its face and beyond
redemption as sowing deliberate discord,
why should the church endure a SINFULPRACTICE
just part of the time. Especially when they know that the objective is
to "go all the way" by as Carrol D. Osburn says "Feminists destroys
patriarchal religion by small acts of treachery."
Paul said that those who had TASTED the Word of
God and then rejected it had done the unforgiveable sin. The
assembly is NOT about personal taste: that would put
mylusts over the
Word of God.

John says that the "lusted after fruits" used as
slick speakers,
singers and players of instruments are sorcerers who HAD DECEIVED THE
WHOLE world: that points directly to Lucifer in the garden and riding
on the backs of all kingly systems such as Trye and Babylon.
In
Revelation 17 John calls her the Mother of Harlots.

1 I
stretched out my hands to
my Lord: and to the Most High I raised my voice:
2 And I spake with the
lips of my
heart;
and He heard me
when my voice reached Him:
3 His answer came to me and
gave me the fruits of my labours;
4 And it gave me rest by the grace
of the Lord. Hallelujah.

ODE 38.5 And I ran no risk,
because I walked
with Him;
6 And I did not make an error
anything because I
obeyed the Truth.

7
For Error
flees away from it and
meets it not: but the Truth
proceeds in the right path, and

8
What ever I did not know, it
made clear to me, all the poisons of error, and the plagues of death
which they think to be sweetness:

9
And I saw the destroyer
of destruction, when the bride
who is corrupted is
adorned:
and the
bridgegroom who corrupts and is corrupted;

10
And I asked the Truth, 'Who are these?'; and He said to
me,
'This is
the deceiver and the error:

11
And they are alike in the
beloved and in his bride:
and they leadastray and corrupt the whole world:

12
And they invite many to
the banquet,13 And give
them to drink of the wine
of
their intoxication, and